I'd have thought that by now people would have started building the thing into the actual sets. It somehow seems more logical to do it that way than combine it with a DVD player.
What exactly is your plan, to stand around and talk about our principles while the megacompanies gradually buy control of congress?
You're quite right. We do need to be more persuasive. However, there has to be a better way than thinly concealed bribary. The way to do it is to persuade people not to vote for politicians who are in the pockets of major corporations. Sadly, I don't have any concrete plans on how to do that.
Asia is a hopeless lie made up by the governemnt to justify military spending. Have you notived that the majority of wars in the past 50 years have been fought in this mythological continent?
It's quite obvious that it doesn't exist! Has anyone ever been there? Of course not! Do people come from there? No. We're meant to assume that all these Asians come from Asia. Hence the name. Well, these people are Asian-Americans! They come from America! Ask one next time you meet him. Ask where he is from. He'll say America (Unless you live in Europe or something that is).
As soon as we accept that Asia doesn't exist, we'll be able to free up all the IP addresses that have been assigned for use by the part of the world that does exist.
You know, you had me wondering WTF you were talking about for 5 minutes until I reread the title of the story. You fucking geeks really take the cake don't you. Are you that idiotic that you don't understand Enterprise Operating Systems are for large corporations?
Well, perhaps you should read the article before the comments.
anyway, let me explian... The comment was what we referred to as a "Joke". This is a deliberately nonsensical comment designed to provoke mirth. By misinterpreting the word "Enterprise", as the starship in the well known Science fiction Series "Star Trek".
But do people really need a fast CPU to run Word and Excel that little bit faster? Even Microsoft are having trouble slowing down multi GHz CPUs enough that you can actually notice. Several million integer operations will take several milliseconds.
Most apps that use the integer unit a lot will benefit more from faster memory more than faster integer performance.
About the only task that I need integer performance for is a compiler. The biggest bottleneck with most apps that are mainly integer based is the speed of memory.
Which is all well and good, but surely I'm not the only one who leave my machine doing what its doing, then wander off to read or something whilst it works. That extra hour and 40 minutes is just spread throughout the day.
I was sort of enjoying his responses to hate mail, then I got to this one:
What a jack ass - This jerk doesn't know jack squat about programming. He claims that most people don't use floating-point. Clearly, this clown has no idea what floating point is as he claims most people use integer, even for decimal. Well, decimal is floating point, and in this day and age where every processor has a floating point unit built in, there isn't a software coder out there that still unrolls floats into ints for speed gains. Those days were over 10 years ago. I use floating point in even the most simple of programs. Every code example I have seen for the last 10 years has included extensive use of floats. So yes, the floating point specbench results are the MOST important results to anyone using software from the mid '90s or later. This guy is a discredit to PC users as a whole. He should keep his trap shut.
Aha, you clearly know what you're talking about, so I shouldn't argue with you. Perhaps you should send this important information to SPEC to let them know that their SPECint2000 benchmarks were obsoleted 10 years ago. Hell, since even the most simple programs use floating-point, why not remove integer operations from CPU's entirely? And ofcourse, nobody will be bothered by the fact that floating-point arithmetic is rarely exact. You should let Intel, AMD, IBM, and Motorola know that they have been wasting their time making integer units in their CPUs. I'm sure they would thank you profusely and declare you a hero for cutting their CPU die size in half. Wait, maybe you can even patent this brilliant idea! But why stop there? You should send a memo to all the millions of jackass programmers in the world that have been foolishly programming using integers.
Most speed critical consumer apps do use floats! Just about all consumer level apps that actually require speed use floating point. Most people are not going to be buying a Mac for physics simulations. Spreadsheets probably use ints, but they don't exactly need a G5. Quake uses floats in most of its speed critical sections, and I bet that will take advantage of a fast CPU.
SPEC still indicate integer performance because some people care!
I mean computers are so fast that there's very little that I might want to do at a consumer level that makes a difference. Most applications are responsive on my ancient 500MHz Pentium 3.
The only things that really need speed are things like 3d rendering, video compression and compiling large appllications. 3D rendering in games is influenced by the speed of the graphics card a lot more than the speed of the CPU, so we're left with the long slow scenes. Personally, it makes very little difference to me if a rendering a scene or compressing a video takes 30 minutes rather than 40. If I can kill 30 minutes, I can kill another 10 quite easily.
In the past, I'd have been able to tell you whether I was using a 20MHz or a 25Mhz 386 just by using it. I can hardly detect the difference between a 1.5GHz machine and a 3.0GHz machine without using a benchmark.
I don't think it worked like that. Ah - here we go: "Professor Urton's study found there are, theoretically, seven points in the making of a khipu where the maker could make a simple choice between two possibilities, a seven-bit binary code. For instance, he or she could choose between weaving a string made of cotton or of wool, or they could weave in a "spin" or "ply" direction, or hang the pendant from the front of the primary string or from the back."
I assume there are 3 other possible variation not mentioned there.
So it looks like there's only one knot, but there are 64 ways of tying it. Then we have a seventh digit which is the colour. i.e. 24*2^6
From others' comments about AOTC YMMV but I don't know why. Does anyone know why different people seeing this saw such a disparity in picture quality?
Focus? Slight blurring will hide many sins in a low resolution image. TV screens use slightly blurry pixels, which is why console/retro games on emulators on the PC often look so much blockier than on TV.
I think actually, people are a lot fussier about digital resolution. Pixelation is more distracting than graininess.
The plus side is that the DVD of AotC should be fantastic in terms of image quality. (not seen it so this is speculation)
Firstly - Switzerland has a very strong defensive position. Almost the entire country is mountain terrain. This and the fact that all their bridges are mined, makes access with armed vehicles difficult, and means any attackers will have rely on infantry for ground level fighting to an extent. They are still succeptable to arial bombardment, but this is less effective against guerilla tactics (which the Swiss will presumably use).
I also have very strong issues with only men being forced to do this training,
I think this is mainly to do with repopulation. After heavy military losses, you will want to make sure you have as many people as possible fit for service in 15-20 years. If you lose a large portion of the male population, this does not affect the potential population growth rate as much as losing a large portion of the female population.
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Yep. Video calls are just a gimmick. Perhaps downloadable video clips will come in useful, but I get the feeling this will not be popular until at least a short cartoon can be downloaded and viewed. at a reasonable price.
The thing is, people don't need any of this. We just want to communicate. Voice only is good enough for that. We may want better text support, but currently screens are simply too small for a significant improvement.
From what I've seen, being involved in office politics is typically not a good idea. I've never been in a company that does have this sort of culture, but people I know seem to find the daily plotting and backstabbing extremely stressful.
I think most people are happy as long as people aren't plotting against them.
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I'd have thought that by now people would have started building the thing into the actual sets. It somehow seems more logical to do it that way than combine it with a DVD player.
What exactly is your plan, to stand around and talk about our principles while the megacompanies gradually buy control of congress?
You're quite right. We do need to be more persuasive. However, there has to be a better way than thinly concealed bribary. The way to do it is to persuade people not to vote for politicians who are in the pockets of major corporations. Sadly, I don't have any concrete plans on how to do that.
Nope. They called it the October revolution (or the russian equivalent).
Does this happen to you often? I suggest a change of career. Most companies have slightly less harsh disciplinary proceedings.
Incidentally, I suggest eating the confession, and refusing to sign anything on the basis that it doesn't contain the word ptarmagin.
Asia is a hopeless lie made up by the governemnt to justify military spending. Have you notived that the majority of wars in the past 50 years have been fought in this mythological continent?
It's quite obvious that it doesn't exist! Has anyone ever been there? Of course not! Do people come from there? No. We're meant to assume that all these Asians come from Asia. Hence the name. Well, these people are Asian-Americans! They come from America! Ask one next time you meet him. Ask where he is from. He'll say America (Unless you live in Europe or something that is).
As soon as we accept that Asia doesn't exist, we'll be able to free up all the IP addresses that have been assigned for use by the part of the world that does exist.
You know, you had me wondering WTF you were talking about for 5 minutes until I reread the title of the story. You fucking geeks really take the cake don't you. Are you that idiotic that you don't understand Enterprise Operating Systems are for large corporations?
Well, perhaps you should read the article before the comments.
anyway, let me explian... The comment was what we referred to as a "Joke". This is a deliberately nonsensical comment designed to provoke mirth. By misinterpreting the word "Enterprise", as the starship in the well known Science fiction Series "Star Trek".
But do people really need a fast CPU to run Word and Excel that little bit faster? Even Microsoft are having trouble slowing down multi GHz CPUs enough that you can actually notice. Several million integer operations will take several milliseconds.
Most apps that use the integer unit a lot will benefit more from faster memory more than faster integer performance.
About the only task that I need integer performance for is a compiler. The biggest bottleneck with most apps that are mainly integer based is the speed of memory.
Which is all well and good, but surely I'm not the only one who leave my machine doing what its doing, then wander off to read or something whilst it works. That extra hour and 40 minutes is just spread throughout the day.
SPEC still indicate integer performance because some people care!
I mean computers are so fast that there's very little that I might want to do at a consumer level that makes a difference. Most applications are responsive on my ancient 500MHz Pentium 3.
The only things that really need speed are things like 3d rendering, video compression and compiling large appllications. 3D rendering in games is influenced by the speed of the graphics card a lot more than the speed of the CPU, so we're left with the long slow scenes. Personally, it makes very little difference to me if a rendering a scene or compressing a video takes 30 minutes rather than 40. If I can kill 30 minutes, I can kill another 10 quite easily.
In the past, I'd have been able to tell you whether I was using a 20MHz or a 25Mhz 386 just by using it. I can hardly detect the difference between a 1.5GHz machine and a 3.0GHz machine without using a benchmark.
In the end, it's just numbers.
A bit irritating, but as long as they don't actually try to prevent you from using your browser of choice, it's fairly harmless.
Doh! Forgot about that.
I don't think it worked like that. Ah - here we go: "Professor Urton's study found there are, theoretically, seven points in the making of a khipu where the maker could make a simple choice between two possibilities, a seven-bit binary code. For instance, he or she could choose between weaving a string made of cotton or of wool, or they could weave in a "spin" or "ply" direction, or hang the pendant from the front of the primary string or from the back."
I assume there are 3 other possible variation not mentioned there.
So it looks like there's only one knot, but there are 64 ways of tying it. Then we have a seventh digit which is the colour. i.e. 24*2^6
Troll?
Did this moderator just not quite grasp the meaning of the word?
Binary for 7 digits and then base 24 for the 8th. I don't think you can describe it any simpler way.
Nope.
Groups of 7 bits. All the knots in a group are the same colour.
The colour mattered. 24 different colours.
Seems highly speculative if you ask me. Maybe they just liked to add colours.
From others' comments about AOTC YMMV but I don't know why. Does anyone know why different people seeing this saw such a disparity in picture quality?
Focus? Slight blurring will hide many sins in a low resolution image. TV screens use slightly blurry pixels, which is why console/retro games on emulators on the PC often look so much blockier than on TV.
I think actually, people are a lot fussier about digital resolution. Pixelation is more distracting than graininess.
The plus side is that the DVD of AotC should be fantastic in terms of image quality. (not seen it so this is speculation)
Yes, but why would they?
Their other option is to not lower the prices, and make more money.
Yep. It's a well known fact that competition increases prices.
$199 for a graphics card? A GeForce 4 costs less than half that, and is more than adequate for just about any game currently available.
Roughly 98%. Columbia was the 113rd shuttle flight (STS-107)
A few observations:
Firstly - Switzerland has a very strong defensive position. Almost the entire country is mountain terrain. This and the fact that all their bridges are mined, makes access with armed vehicles difficult, and means any attackers will have rely on infantry for ground level fighting to an extent. They are still succeptable to arial bombardment, but this is less effective against guerilla tactics (which the Swiss will presumably use).
I also have very strong issues with only men being forced to do this training,
I think this is mainly to do with repopulation. After heavy military losses, you will want to make sure you have as many people as possible fit for service in 15-20 years. If you lose a large portion of the male population, this does not affect the potential population growth rate as much as losing a large portion of the female population.
Yep. Video calls are just a gimmick. Perhaps downloadable video clips will come in useful, but I get the feeling this will not be popular until at least a short cartoon can be downloaded and viewed. at a reasonable price.
The thing is, people don't need any of this. We just want to communicate. Voice only is good enough for that. We may want better text support, but currently screens are simply too small for a significant improvement.
Good advice.
From what I've seen, being involved in office politics is typically not a good idea. I've never been in a company that does have this sort of culture, but people I know seem to find the daily plotting and backstabbing extremely stressful.
I think most people are happy as long as people aren't plotting against them.