Most current generation games are multithreaded. There is commonly at least a sound thread. Often a music thread. On many games, a background loading thread (doing disk i/o so that you won't have level load gameplay interruptions).
Whether or not those threads can gain serious benefits from multiple cpus is a different question.
we must free the martian dirt from their alien overlords! now is the time to stand united against oppression. rise up and throw of your bindings of oppression!
You could deeply bury a colony on earth and expect it to have some chance of survival. Post impact there would be issues with food production due to the lack of sunlight, which wouldn't be an issue for the hypothetical mars/moon bases. You might be able to solve this with some good artificial light.
I think a key problem with maintaining a colony underground on earth is convincing a survival size population living in it or close enough to it to be safe 24/7. Convincing people to open up the frontier of mars on the other hand won't be very difficult.
There are lots of other issues too... having a catastrophe plan that is as flexible as possible makes sense.
Microsoft can't give the money to NASA unless the board agrees to it.
Bill could be generous and do some himself, but he doesn't have as much liquid wealth as MS.
Also, its easy to be generous with other peoples money that you obtained through your illegal monopoly. I could do it to if I had control of a huge illegal monopoly.
But in case anyone is wondering, a 1km asteroid impact would kill billions of people, probably all of them, and we have no backup plan without space travel.
The whole problem with the nmr/mri causes hallucinations theory is that the scientists didn't understand that those machines attract ghosts with their powerful magnetic fields.
So, how does the broadcast flag, which devices must then not allow you to make unlimited copies of, cause you to be unable to make unlimited copies of non-flagged materials (your home videos)?
What, you're just going to blatantly assume that we'll not have discovered a way to perform our computations in another universe in the next 80+ years?
It's not that hard to fool the canine helpers people into giving you a seeing eye dog. Then you put on some blinders and walk around free from visual advertising forever. Plus you have a typically very very well trained dog.
"The unfortunate thing is when you see something that appears to you to be total crap, and a bunch of people are saying, "it just went over your head," there's not way of knowing for sure which is the case. Maybe you just didn't "get it"."
Actually, you can just have them explain it to you, and if they can't introduce you to anything you missed, if you fully understand every point they think made the thing great, then maybe they're just easily impressed. And you're a bit smarter than they are. No way to disprove this side of it either. I've fully understood every point everyone posting to this story has made about what makes reloaded good, and I still think that it was a terrible movie. The same points could have been delivered in soooooo many better ways.
The whole problem with that is 'throw all the evidence'... collecting all the evidence is the challenge. The bloodcell in a carpet fiber or spattered on the wall is what gets you.
Getting a free add with your mul is ok, but two adds in parallel is not particularly great for most scientific apps, since they spend more of their time waiting on muls.
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Most current generation games are multithreaded. There is commonly at least a sound thread. Often a music thread. On many games, a background loading thread (doing disk i/o so that you won't have level load gameplay interruptions).
Whether or not those threads can gain serious benefits from multiple cpus is a different question.
we must free the martian dirt from their alien overlords! now is the time to stand united against oppression. rise up and throw of your bindings of oppression!
No one with a real job. ;-)
You could deeply bury a colony on earth and expect it to have some chance of survival. Post impact there would be issues with food production due to the lack of sunlight, which wouldn't be an issue for the hypothetical mars/moon bases. You might be able to solve this with some good artificial light.
... having a catastrophe plan that is as flexible as possible makes sense.
I think a key problem with maintaining a colony underground on earth is convincing a survival size population living in it or close enough to it to be safe 24/7. Convincing people to open up the frontier of mars on the other hand won't be very difficult.
There are lots of other issues too
Microsoft can't give the money to NASA unless the board agrees to it.
Bill could be generous and do some himself, but he doesn't have as much liquid wealth as MS.
Also, its easy to be generous with other peoples money that you obtained through your illegal monopoly. I could do it to if I had control of a huge illegal monopoly.
A pretty good troll.
But in case anyone is wondering, a 1km asteroid impact would kill billions of people, probably all of them, and we have no backup plan without space travel.
The better strategy from Darl's point of view will be to rebut something that is not Linus' argument at all.
For example, darl might rebut as follows:
Linus must be crazy to think that the united states can be overthrown from within by a bunch of poorly funded communists!
Attacking off topic is generally much more effective in the public forum than actually debating your opponent.
What, now microsoft is in league with the FRENCH??? Are they selling technology to iraq?
1 in 10 redhat customers is so dissatisfied with their product that they are not maintaining their subscriptions.
That's a horrific customer loss rate.
In all fairness to SCO, I think it is abundantly clear that god did use SCO source code in the design of creation. After all, there it is.
I guess with the caveat assumption that there does exist some SCO source code somewhere.
The whole problem with the nmr/mri causes hallucinations theory is that the scientists didn't understand that those machines attract ghosts with their powerful magnetic fields.
Have you seen san fran? It's hideous.
The sense of it is, the authorities who felt a need to do 'something' about the problem, can then quite definitively say to whoever complained:
Don't worry, the guilty student(s) have been punished.
Which is perfectly true, since they punished all of you.
Sorry, I figured people would highlight my text to find the hidden white on white smiley. ;-)
Sourceforge has been out of commission for nearly a month now, or didn't you notice?
So, how does the broadcast flag, which devices must then not allow you to make unlimited copies of, cause you to be unable to make unlimited copies of non-flagged materials (your home videos)?
What, you're just going to blatantly assume that we'll not have discovered a way to perform our computations in another universe in the next 80+ years?
What are we, lazy?
It's not that hard to fool the canine helpers people into giving you a seeing eye dog. Then you put on some blinders and walk around free from visual advertising forever. Plus you have a typically very very well trained dog.
"The unfortunate thing is when you see something that appears to you to be total crap, and a bunch of people are saying, "it just went over your head," there's not way of knowing for sure which is the case. Maybe you just didn't "get it"."
Actually, you can just have them explain it to you, and if they can't introduce you to anything you missed, if you fully understand every point they think made the thing great, then maybe they're just easily impressed. And you're a bit smarter than they are. No way to disprove this side of it either. I've fully understood every point everyone posting to this story has made about what makes reloaded good, and I still think that it was a terrible movie. The same points could have been delivered in soooooo many better ways.
In case no one else points it out, that wasn't in the original release.
The whole problem with that is 'throw all the evidence' ... collecting all the evidence is the challenge. The bloodcell in a carpet fiber or spattered on the wall is what gets you.
Getting a free add with your mul is ok, but two adds in parallel is not particularly great for most scientific apps, since they spend more of their time waiting on muls.
Aww ... I was believing this review until it criticized freddy got fingered. That was the most brilliant film I saw last year.
Umm ... they don't move at anything close to the speed of light in vacuum.
To Step 2?