While I think the new theme is fairly ok, even pretty. I like the old one, Qute, far, far better. At some point the reason for it to go was that the author's license was incompatible with Mozilla's - But I don't think that's an issue anymore - I wish they'd keep Qute, in my opinion it's far more consistant than the new pinstripe theme...
This report seems to be in line with Alexis de Tocqueville's 'famous words': The public will believe a simple lie rather than a complex truth. Only, the lie has gotten a bit complex, hasn't it?
I've got a nice VIA Epia board (C3 Nehemiah). The instruction in question is CMOV. To build for these machines with recent GCCs build with c3 as -march or -mcpu:) If you don't use a recent gcc compile with i586 instead - Mine supports MMX+SSE (it has two SSE pipes).
When I play and use voice comm, I use Ventrilo. When I (or some of my colleagues) work from home, we use Ventrilo to conference, it works very well! Ventrilo is also free.
Man that's really insane, the cars I'm considering goes 20-25 kilometers per liter. That's 47-58 miles per gallon! It's not just gas prices that is a factor here, cars pollute, so the less they pollute, the better. The noise pollution of this thing is significant too. No, this is cool but it needs to get better. Way better.
Or you could disable the disk caching, or put the disk cache on a RAM-drive - Turn off your computer and the cache is history (but the history isn't):P
[...] if a Hafnium bomb could be built, it is thought that a golf ball sized chunk could produce the energy equivalent of 10 tons of conventional explosives
Doesn't that mean that a ten megaton hafniabomb would be the size of one million golf balls? That's pretty big... I'm sure I must be wrong:P
The Bugatti Veyron is so extremely cool:D Before that though, the fastest streetcar was the Koenigsegg CC, which had a top speed of 390 km/h (~240 mph) - They made a new model, the CCR, which is also pretty nice - These two cars are my favorite dream car:) My favorite car dream site is the German Auto-Salon Singen - They have SO many cars (in stock too). New and used. Stock, prototype and vintage - They got it all. I must go down there and see the store some time, I'm told it's unbelievable:) Oh, yeah, they got four Bugatti Veyron's in stock, price: EUR 1.086.206,00 (each) *drool*
Well, if you had read the "article", you would have known that the tires are special. And indeed they have to be. As for 400 Km/h speeds being useless, that may be, but:
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Our Bugatti test driver says the car is so stable at 236 mph you can drive with one hand on the wheel."
It sounds like it can be done without a lot of problems.
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As for aerodynamics, it isnt very hard to keep the car planted, even without fancy computer desgined undercar tunnels. There are tons of books on desgning and testing over and underbody aerodymics- much of this knowledge has been floating around for decades.
I'm glad you think it's easy. Bugatti who knows a little about such matters, thought:
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aerodynamics was the biggest challenge. That the car doesn't fly. We needed a lot, a lot, of wind-tunnel testing. With the moving tail spoiler we've got enough downforce now, about 100 kg (221 pounds) at the rear and 80 kg (177 pounds) at the front at top speed
They seem to think it a great challenge. Maybe you should take your books and go work for them;)
... the image of the LCDs was brighter than the DLPs with similarly powerful bulbs (no, I don't know here the DLPs leave the 'extra' light:-). To achieve the same brightness, a DLP will require a brighter bulb...
That's how DMD/DLP works:) It uses mirrors, and not all light goes out of the projector.
On the front page, right now, next to this story is Ars' story entitled "Home broadband adoption up 60% in US" - This states some interesting facts: "There are now 48 million users with broadband at home, up 60% from last year's 30 million figure." - 20 mill. of those are DSL customers - also it states "DSL has climbed in popularity due in large part to price cuts which have brought prices down to the US$30 level for speeds of up to 1.5Mbps. When compared to spending US$20 for a dial-up connection or US$40-50 for high-speed cable, these budget DSL packages have proven to be attractive options.". So the question remains, why aren't the dial-up users spending the extra US$ 10 to get always-on broadband DSL? I'm guessing many of the dial-up users can't get DSL in the first place. But that doesn't explain this article though.
Good news everyone! I've created a new kind of motor. It uses magnetism to perpetuate the motor motion. As a result the motors uses 80% less energy than a conventional motor, while still maintaing the same horsepower. Also, I've taught the hair dryer to write lovely sonnets!
Oh man, I can actually hear Billy West's awesome voice saying that;)
Your first, second and third points are noteworthy. Valid points that annoy me too. But.
How is this new lawsuit good for anything but Microsoft? It's like Microsoft basically paid $440million to ensure that 3rd party software has a disadvantage - something Microsoft has already been sued for! This, once again, screws consumers by causing 3rd party manufacturers to pay more for licensing and allows MS to eat another market.
It's a settlement. Microsoft settled with InterTrust, by agreeing to license their technology. This license means that they can use the technology in their products. Third parties have a disadvantage in that they ALSO (surprise) need a license to use that same technology. It's logical, and it's normal business practise. A small company doesn't need to spend more than (or in fact anywhere near) US$ 440.000.000 for a license. It's cheaper. Microsoft just struck a deal. Microsoft wins and InterTrust wins. Now go sulk somewhere else;)
Any technology sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic!
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I tried sodipodi for windows a few times, and every single time it crashed and burned badly, I lost all I had done *every*single*time*. Needless to say, I'm never using that bad piece of software again.
Haven't tried it on linux. I only run linux on my servers and my laptop, and I don't to graphics stuff on my laptop.
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While I think the new theme is fairly ok, even pretty. I like the old one, Qute, far, far better. At some point the reason for it to go was that the author's license was incompatible with Mozilla's - But I don't think that's an issue anymore - I wish they'd keep Qute, in my opinion it's far more consistant than the new pinstripe theme...
This report seems to be in line with Alexis de Tocqueville's 'famous words': The public will believe a simple lie rather than a complex truth .
Only, the lie has gotten a bit complex, hasn't it?
I've got a nice VIA Epia board (C3 Nehemiah). :) If you don't use a recent gcc compile with i586 instead - Mine supports MMX+SSE (it has two SSE pipes).
The instruction in question is CMOV.
To build for these machines with recent GCCs build with c3 as -march or -mcpu
When I play and use voice comm, I use Ventrilo. When I (or some of my colleagues) work from home, we use Ventrilo to conference, it works very well!
Ventrilo is also free.
Man that's really insane, the cars I'm considering goes 20-25 kilometers per liter. That's 47-58 miles per gallon!
It's not just gas prices that is a factor here, cars pollute, so the less they pollute, the better.
The noise pollution of this thing is significant too. No, this is cool but it needs to get better. Way better.
Or you could disable the disk caching, or put the disk cache on a RAM-drive - Turn off your computer and the cache is history (but the history isn't) :P
I'm sure I must be wrong
Farnsworth: "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"
:)
heheh
Yes that is good! Also, "MORBO WILL DESTROY YOU!" and "Morbo is pleased, but sticky.", oh and:
:) I love futurama :)
"Our next guest has been teaching the world to cook for over twenty years, but apparently my wife hasn't been listening.
I WILL DESTROY HER!!"
hehe
While legal in Russia, it may not be legal in YOUR country to use their services.
Just a thing to bear in mind, if you want to keep a clean path.
True, they do have a lot of prototype cars for sale. For the geeks who want stuff before it goes mainstream ;) hehehe
No, they do have it in stock, three 2003 models and one 2004 model, check it. You can even call them, or better travel there and go look at them :)
The Bugatti Veyron is so extremely cool :D Before that though, the fastest streetcar was the Koenigsegg CC, which had a top speed of 390 km/h (~240 mph) - They made a new model, the CCR, which is also pretty nice - These two cars are my favorite dream car :) :)
My favorite car dream site is the German Auto-Salon Singen - They have SO many cars (in stock too). New and used. Stock, prototype and vintage - They got it all. I must go down there and see the store some time, I'm told it's unbelievable
Oh, yeah, they got four Bugatti Veyron's in stock, price: EUR 1.086.206,00 (each)
*drool*
As for 400 Km/h speeds being useless, that may be, but:
It sounds like it can be done without a lot of problems.
I'm glad you think it's easy. Bugatti who knows a little about such matters, thought:
They seem to think it a great challenge. Maybe you should take your books and go work for them
YOU try taking 5.000.000 hits on YOUR hand in a couple of hours. :)
That's how DMD/DLP works
On the front page, right now, next to this story is Ars' story entitled "Home broadband adoption up 60% in US" - This states some interesting facts: "There are now 48 million users with broadband at home, up 60% from last year's 30 million figure." - 20 mill. of those are DSL customers - also it states "DSL has climbed in popularity due in large part to price cuts which have brought prices down to the US$30 level for speeds of up to 1.5Mbps. When compared to spending US$20 for a dial-up connection or US$40-50 for high-speed cable, these budget DSL packages have proven to be attractive options.".
So the question remains, why aren't the dial-up users spending the extra US$ 10 to get always-on broadband DSL? I'm guessing many of the dial-up users can't get DSL in the first place. But that doesn't explain this article though.
Good news everyone! I've created a new kind of motor. It uses magnetism to perpetuate the motor motion. As a result the motors uses 80% less energy than a conventional motor, while still maintaing the same horsepower. Also, I've taught the hair dryer to write lovely sonnets!
;)
Oh man, I can actually hear Billy West's awesome voice saying that
It's a settlement. Microsoft settled with InterTrust, by agreeing to license their technology. This license means that they can use the technology in their products. Third parties have a disadvantage in that they ALSO (surprise) need a license to use that same technology. It's logical, and it's normal business practise.
A small company doesn't need to spend more than (or in fact anywhere near) US$ 440.000.000 for a license. It's cheaper. Microsoft just struck a deal. Microsoft wins and InterTrust wins.
Now go sulk somewhere else
I like your python bot, supybot, it's really nice! I'm gonna use it for a project soon and write a DCC chat module for it. Great work :)
Try reading ESR's Why Python?, also check out the Quotes on Python from python.org :)
It's a beautiful language, I'm sorry I can't code in it more...
Oh, there is a petition to revive Futurama
Any technology sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic!
I tried sodipodi for windows a few times, and every single time it crashed and burned badly, I lost all I had done *every*single*time*. Needless to say, I'm never using that bad piece of software again.
Haven't tried it on linux. I only run linux on my servers and my laptop, and I don't to graphics stuff on my laptop.
Wow, think of it! 10 TB solid state, ultra fast disks! Whoa. I'm getting dizzy here.