Ray Tracing requires a huge amount of hardware. After that is being drawn > 30 fps, then we can move on to Sub-surface scattering so that marble and milk look right.
A NASA funded study during the 70's came back with the conclusion that it would certainly be profitable to build an SPS. Given our rising energy costs, it would seem even easier now, except for the prohibitively expensive launch costs. The current space competitions may change the launch situation. One interesting thing about a space elevator is that you Don't have to go all the way from geo to ground. You could build a chain of them in different orbits. This should enable us to use non-theoretical materials to build them. SPS doesn't have to use PV, heat engine based designs were researched. The problem with those is reliability.
Don't believe that google survey about heat, its for desktops. I went through 3 hard disks on my dell laptop before I started using a laptop cooler (usb tray with fan(s) cooling the bottom of the laptop). Quit eating HD's after that.
I thought TF2 felt slow, now I know why. On another note, MMO's battles typically aren't based on player position. You hit a key for engage enemy, and wait for them (or you) to die: dodging will not help you. Whether or not you get hit is based on statistics, not on player position (well, unless you get far enough away to be out of range or behind a door). That's what was so fun about Diablo 2: It had FPS style dodging accompanied with team based questing/gameplay. Battles in D2 aren't just about your equipment, they're based on your equipment + how well you play, and there is MUCH more variation in play style when positioning of the player matters.
Really good command line? They're working on PowerShell
No I am NOT an MS fanboy. I'm posting this so that bash will be better than this by the time it rolls out (well you can download it for vista, but since I'll never run Vista I can't tell you first hand if it's any good.
Only a lawyer could say that with a straight face.
What's particularly priceless is the point you made that (paraphrasing) "No, its not a monopoly, all you need to do is spend 5 years of your life, thousands of dollars, and pass a difficult test" in order to argue in a court of law.
I doubt lawyers 100 years ago had 1/10 the education todays lawyers had, and they didn't need it because the laws were shorter and simpler.
I'm a computer programmer. The difference between the laws I write and the rules/laws you write and interpret are: Mine are tested thoroughly before application to a live system. Mine are designed with the mantra that smaller is better. Large laws/code has more bugs.
I read that webpage about the lawyer joke being positive towards lawyers and I disagree. Basically Ss is making a joke about killing all the lawyers in order to get a utopia. Although it was the bad guys making the joke, the joke would have fallen flat if the audience hadn't wanted it. That's what makes the whole joke funny. In other cases Shakespeare does poke fun at lawyers.
Here's an interesting tidbit ( from http://simplyted.blogspot.com/2005/12/how-to-visualize-data.html ) : Our DNA sequence is 600MB... 1/2 the size of a Vista install. We could start rating hard disks in People, i.e. that 4 TB hard disk will hold 6.6KP (KiloPeople)
And that's exactly the reason. EOLing a person prematurely is illegal. This IS Microsoft we're talking about right? Since when does illegality have anything to do with it?
You're forgetting that Vista has failed like Windows ME failed. Only thing that will rescue MS from the Vista failure at this point is a new release of Windows. What I see driving requirements for new machines now is gaming, which is pushing the video card system. http://www.idfun.de/temp/q4rt/ That guy got hired by Intel. Translation: Intel is going to be making some rather staggeringly powerful video systems for the segment of the market that spends the most on computing hardware: Gamers. When Billy Gamer plays the new fully ray-traced Duke Nukem Forever, all of his Joe Sixpack cousins will want one too. Now if that first system would only run Linux we'd have The Killer App...
Solar panels in space get at least 5X more sunlight energy than panels on earth. Solar panels in space are offline only when eclipsed by the earth, which is for a few hours for a few weeks during the year. There are no birds, insects, corrosion, dust, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or volcanoes in space. Studies financed by congress (not 2-bit back of the envelope type studies) found that the whole system would make financial sense. What killed it at the time was the widespread optimism regarding nuclear power. Now that that is gone due to the difficulties with waste/accidents, SBSP should get its turn in the limelight. Don't forget the other way of generating power: Concentrating energy with mirrors to a closed steam cycle engine. It's more efficient, however maintenance becomes a problem in space.
Where we have our very own Iron Curtain (it just goes the other way). Here's the progression: No, we don't let you in. You can leave, but not with your money. You can leave, just give us 72 hours to make sure you're not on our list of Bad People (anyone we don't like). "you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave"
DNS should be traffic based. I.e. you should be able to register for any DNS entry you want, but in the case of multiple registrations, sort the choice of which site to go to by traffic. You could set a threshold of say if site has had > 100k hits, and gets > 75% hits, default to the most popular site. Why on earth would we have to PAY for little bits of electronic data? And we did it to ourselves...
... next up a fix for the whole stupid paying for website certificates boondoggle.
You really should study Compaq. They had an "improved" line of computers for a very long time, which were slightly incompatible. Now they just sell clones.
That happened long ago, you see buried in the fine print they acquired the rights to all your wealth, all your friends wealth, and the wealth of all your offspring. You DID read the fine print like I did didn't you? (oh wait...) Seriously though, they've owned my soul ever since TFC came out, and again when Counterstrike reigned supreme, (m4a1 + scope those were the days), and again with Natural Selection. So by my count, I gotta sell 3 of my friends souls to them just to get break even. I've put off getting HL2 for a coupla reasons, but now that TF2 is out, that Schloooooping sound you hear next will be all my waking hours being chewed up by their DRM-infested-hacker-riddled but still totally awesome game that is the successor to TF2. Oh and if you accuse me of hacking, COOL. I love compliments!
What would traditional American food be, by the way? I don't know anything about Native American cuisine. Well let me take a stab at it. Keep in mind that America is a melting pot, so we take all the food we get and Americanize it. Sweeten it with diabetes-inducing high fructose corn syrup, and don't use the cheap/disgusting parts of the animal like tongue, stomach, high fat areas. So here's my list: Apple Pie, meatloaf, the casserole family (broccoli, hamburger, etc), bacon & eggs either scrambled on toast or cooked sunnyside up, Pancakes, waffles, steak or pot roast with mashed potatoes and gravy, peanut butter sandwiches, tuna salad. There is another list for each of the regions, the midwest/Texas, the South/Lousiana, West Coast/California, East coast/Boston.
Oh and one final tip: Don't eat anyone elses' meatlof.
Not necessarily. Encrypt the binaries with public key cryptography. Just make sure you unplug the internet and boot off of a CD that checks your boot files before you type in the private key. After you're done compiling & installing everything reboot.
Neither the idiom.com link nor you get it. Java is perceived as slow because it starts up slow. All those fancy benchmarks aren't including startup times, which is what the user sees as slow. Humans are all about first impressions, and startup time for a java app IS the first impression. And if its Java on the web wow does is take painfully long for the JVM to load.
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We need more Freenet clients/easier to use Freenet clients. Then an ISP could run a Freenet node and not worry about the liability.
Graphics hardware is Way behind.
http://www.idfun.de/temp/q4rt/
Ray Tracing requires a huge amount of hardware. After that is being drawn > 30 fps, then we can move on to Sub-surface scattering so that marble and milk look right.
Nuclear energy research is good. Think x-rays of your teeth, broken bones. And that's just the tip of the nuclear medicine iceberg.
I bought it: My Game. If I wanted direction I'd be watching a movie. Non-skippable cut-scenes are of the devil.
A NASA funded study during the 70's came back with the conclusion that it would certainly be profitable to build an SPS. Given our rising energy costs, it would seem even easier now, except for the prohibitively expensive launch costs. The current space competitions may change the launch situation.
One interesting thing about a space elevator is that you Don't have to go all the way from geo to ground. You could build a chain of them in different orbits. This should enable us to use non-theoretical materials to build them.
SPS doesn't have to use PV, heat engine based designs were researched. The problem with those is reliability.
Don't believe that google survey about heat, its for desktops. I went through 3 hard disks on my dell laptop before I started using a laptop cooler (usb tray with fan(s) cooling the bottom of the laptop). Quit eating HD's after that.
Ray-Tracing is coming...
I thought TF2 felt slow, now I know why.
On another note, MMO's battles typically aren't based on player position. You hit a key for engage enemy, and wait for them (or you) to die: dodging will not help you. Whether or not you get hit is based on statistics, not on player position (well, unless you get far enough away to be out of range or behind a door).
That's what was so fun about Diablo 2: It had FPS style dodging accompanied with team based questing/gameplay.
Battles in D2 aren't just about your equipment, they're based on your equipment + how well you play, and there is MUCH more variation in play style when positioning of the player matters.
Really good command line? They're working on PowerShell
No I am NOT an MS fanboy. I'm posting this so that bash will be better than this by the time it rolls out (well you can download it for vista, but since I'll never run Vista I can't tell you first hand if it's any good.
Actually I think they're tossing them, or was it that we are? I'm confused....
Only a lawyer could say that with a straight face.
What's particularly priceless is the point you made that (paraphrasing) "No, its not a monopoly, all you need to do is spend 5 years of your life, thousands of dollars, and pass a difficult test" in order to argue in a court of law.
I doubt lawyers 100 years ago had 1/10 the education todays lawyers had, and they didn't need it because the laws were shorter and simpler.
I'm a computer programmer. The difference between the laws I write and the rules/laws you write and interpret are:
Mine are tested thoroughly before application to a live system.
Mine are designed with the mantra that smaller is better. Large laws/code has more bugs.
I read that webpage about the lawyer joke being positive towards lawyers and I disagree. Basically Ss is making a joke about killing all the lawyers in order to get a utopia. Although it was the bad guys making the joke, the joke would have fallen flat if the audience hadn't wanted it. That's what makes the whole joke funny. In other cases Shakespeare does poke fun at lawyers.
Here's an interesting tidbit ( from http://simplyted.blogspot.com/2005/12/how-to-visualize-data.html ) : ... 1/2 the size of a Vista install.
Our DNA sequence is 600MB
We could start rating hard disks in People, i.e. that 4 TB hard disk will hold 6.6KP (KiloPeople)
You're forgetting that Vista has failed like Windows ME failed.
Only thing that will rescue MS from the Vista failure at this point is a new release of Windows.
What I see driving requirements for new machines now is gaming, which is pushing the video card system.
http://www.idfun.de/temp/q4rt/
That guy got hired by Intel. Translation: Intel is going to be making some rather staggeringly powerful video systems for the segment of the market that spends the most on computing hardware: Gamers. When Billy Gamer plays the new fully ray-traced Duke Nukem Forever, all of his Joe Sixpack cousins will want one too.
Now if that first system would only run Linux we'd have The Killer App...
Solar panels in space get at least 5X more sunlight energy than panels on earth.
Solar panels in space are offline only when eclipsed by the earth, which is for a few hours for a few weeks during the year.
There are no birds, insects, corrosion, dust, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or volcanoes in space.
Studies financed by congress (not 2-bit back of the envelope type studies) found that the whole system would make financial sense. What killed it at the time was the widespread optimism regarding nuclear power. Now that that is gone due to the difficulties with waste/accidents, SBSP should get its turn in the limelight.
Don't forget the other way of generating power: Concentrating energy with mirrors to a closed steam cycle engine. It's more efficient, however maintenance becomes a problem in space.
Awesome online book on the subject here:
http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/sunpower/index.html
Where we have our very own Iron Curtain (it just goes the other way).
Here's the progression:
No, we don't let you in.
You can leave, but not with your money.
You can leave, just give us 72 hours to make sure you're not on our list of Bad People (anyone we don't like).
"you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave"
Your page totally stinks. Gives no real information, only fluff marketspeak. This is Slashdot, so consider your target audience.
http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Playa
and
http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa_checklist
are MUCH better sources of real information.
I.e. you should be able to register for any DNS entry you want, but in the case of multiple registrations, sort the choice of which site to go to by traffic. You could set a threshold of say if site has had > 100k hits, and gets > 75% hits, default to the most popular site.
Why on earth would we have to PAY for little bits of electronic data? And we did it to ourselves...
http://hillarynutcracker.com/completelynuts.html
You really should study Compaq. They had an "improved" line of computers for a very long time, which were slightly incompatible. Now they just sell clones.
That happened long ago, you see buried in the fine print they acquired the rights to all your wealth, all your friends wealth, and the wealth of all your offspring. You DID read the fine print like I did didn't you? (oh wait...)
Seriously though, they've owned my soul ever since TFC came out, and again when Counterstrike reigned supreme, (m4a1 + scope those were the days), and again with Natural Selection. So by my count, I gotta sell 3 of my friends souls to them just to get break even. I've put off getting HL2 for a coupla reasons, but now that TF2 is out, that Schloooooping sound you hear next will be all my waking hours being chewed up by their DRM-infested-hacker-riddled but still totally awesome game that is the successor to TF2.
Oh and if you accuse me of hacking, COOL. I love compliments!
So here's my list:
Apple Pie, meatloaf, the casserole family (broccoli, hamburger, etc), bacon & eggs either scrambled on toast or cooked sunnyside up, Pancakes, waffles, steak or pot roast with mashed potatoes and gravy, peanut butter sandwiches, tuna salad.
There is another list for each of the regions, the midwest/Texas, the South/Lousiana, West Coast/California, East coast/Boston.
Oh and one final tip: Don't eat anyone elses' meatlof.
Not necessarily. Encrypt the binaries with public key cryptography. Just make sure you unplug the internet and boot off of a CD that checks your boot files before you type in the private key. After you're done compiling & installing everything reboot.
welcome our future non-cyborged underlings.
Neither the idiom.com link nor you get it.
Java is perceived as slow because it starts up slow.
All those fancy benchmarks aren't including startup times, which is what the user sees as slow.
Humans are all about first impressions, and startup time for a java app IS the first impression.
And if its Java on the web wow does is take painfully long for the JVM to load.