I remember in the early days of the bot com boom I worked at a startup where we would host websites for free in exchange for the right to add unobtrusive text advertisements. Strangly while many people were interested in having us host their sites, NO advertisers would make a deal with us. They insisted on banner or popup ads only.
But you could say that about any computer in exenstance today, prices are going down while power is increasing. Now lets say power increases 2X every 18 months and price drops by 5% every 18 months (probably not accurate numbers but just go with me here). Over 20 years that is 2^13=8192 increase in speed for the average desktop system. And I its been too long sense I took calculus and dealt with natural logs but lets say the average home computer has gone from 2 grand to 500 thats a 75% drop. Oh F it.. as you can see the Xbox cost almost as much as a full computer of todays standards while the Atari cost a small fraction. The atari probably was a fraction of computing standards for the day.. So what am I getting at here. I have no Fing clue except our stats are stupid too!!:P
Its funny how preception changes with risk. A few years ago everyone was screaming that we needed IPv6 even though NAT had been invented. Now we are finally realizing the security advantages of NAT and are starting to accept that we don't all NEED a publically addressable space.
At one time we wanted to be able to connect directly to our fridge from work, now we are happy and prefer to connect directly to our home server which will route request to our fridge based upon security clearances.. Because seriously do you expect GE to build an internet connected fridge that takes all security precautions and never gets hacked into. Much like the multi-layers of an OS local networks need layers of access starting with a secure router that can handle security instead of expecting each device to be secure on its own.
I'm sure there are scammers everyone. Though as all colleges in China are staterun its probably not as much of a problem.. Though I've met PhDs from respectable US college with no clue, infact know one who litterly paid someone else for all the research/data analysis for her thesis and passed.
For some odd reason it works in Korea... Not quite sure why.
But simply put watching a computer game is boring, the only people willing to pay to watch would be other high level gamers. Not quite unlike golf I guess... Oh well nevermind... I guess gamers just have to have enough money
Review talks about the "realistic" motion blur. Having recently played such a game I can say that motion blur in racing games are generally unrealistic. Anyone seen this one? is it overdone or just right?
Oh duh.. I feel stupid now.. Your probably right 9GB is a double layer disk. So they take a double layer disk incorperate the media codec for Hi-def tv into it so that you can made a hi-def movie on a regular DVD (abit holds less than 2 hours probably) I could definatly see the point.. Gawd do I feel stupid.
At 9GB the short answer is no. Most likly the laser spacings will be tighter, this adjustment can be done easily on the production lines, but much more difficult to do on the average player.
What its saying is that end users can choose to put their own files up in the network, all file choices belong to AOL. Not saying it can't be hacked of course.
As well I have seen MANY web counter sites and whatnot who could potentially do much the same things. I definatly trust google over freecounters.com don't you? Did anyone even think about freecounters ability to screw us over? No?
Yes, but believe it or not many people in europe live outside of the cities, but you can litterly take public transportation almost anywhere in these places. One of the few examples I think where there should be higher tax in this country. Of course now its too late as our infrastructure is too far behind. We would have to build the infrastructure first then increase the tax (allowing commerical exeptions.) otherwise we would cripple the economy. Its sad that the huge transportation bill past a few months ago included little for public transport, I know there are changes being made post Katrina (mostly cost cutting though) hopefully some money will be shifted as well.
Personally i think Europe has it good. I'd be willing to pay $10 per gallon if there were infrastructure TODAY allowing me to get to work without using my personal car. Unfortunatly in many cities this simply isn't the case.
Ignoring the anti-government retoric its generally accepted within the physics community that if time travel is ever possible you can only go back in time as far as the existance of the time machine. Essentially you have to make a machine that digs a tunnel through time, then you can travel back and forth through that tunnel. And yes this would really screw up the economy, you couldn't exactly go back in time and get things from the past. Economically speaking time would stand still from the point of invention on. All the timeline points of which the machine existed would be interconnected and be the same time, especially if you somehow figured out a way to send information along it.
They arn't aruging against the classification, they simply state that the anti-spyware company is forbidden from ever installing their software. The rest of the arguement goes, if you classified us, you must have installed us at some point in time.
Its kinda silly to worry about the newtons of force as the larger the astroid the more newtons it would require to move, in fact its a linear relationship. So that no matter the size of the astroid the speed inwhich the astroid will move is the same.. Thats gravity for you..:) Now the newtons is important as the spacecraft will need its thrusters to push it in the opposite direction with that many newtons, and I'd imagine that could become the hard part.
BTW 10^8 newtons on a 9E19KG object would produce 1.1E-12 m/s^2 acceleration.
thats 3.5E-5 M for the first year. It'll speed up a bit after that!:)
Well once its in space a combination of nuclear/solar power fuel would probably be sufficent for moving around and towing.
Crew? Why would this need a crew? a computer could do this job easily and you could provide basic commands remotely abit with a large time delay.
No reason to reenter earths atmosphere, this wouldn't be damaged in anyway by pulling an astroid. You simply need to being it back in orbit if you need to do regular mantainence and this baby would be ready at minimal cost to defend against future astroids.
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dot com boom even. And worked was a bit of a stretch.. wasted my time is a better term I guess.
I remember in the early days of the bot com boom I worked at a startup where we would host websites for free in exchange for the right to add unobtrusive text advertisements. Strangly while many people were interested in having us host their sites, NO advertisers would make a deal with us. They insisted on banner or popup ads only.
But you could say that about any computer in exenstance today, prices are going down while power is increasing. Now lets say power increases 2X every 18 months and price drops by 5% every 18 months (probably not accurate numbers but just go with me here). Over 20 years that is 2^13=8192 increase in speed for the average desktop system. And I its been too long sense I took calculus and dealt with natural logs but lets say the average home computer has gone from 2 grand to 500 thats a 75% drop. Oh F it.. as you can see the Xbox cost almost as much as a full computer of todays standards while the Atari cost a small fraction. The atari probably was a fraction of computing standards for the day.. So what am I getting at here. I have no Fing clue except our stats are stupid too!! :P
Its funny how preception changes with risk. A few years ago everyone was screaming that we needed IPv6 even though NAT had been invented. Now we are finally realizing the security advantages of NAT and are starting to accept that we don't all NEED a publically addressable space.
At one time we wanted to be able to connect directly to our fridge from work, now we are happy and prefer to connect directly to our home server which will route request to our fridge based upon security clearances.. Because seriously do you expect GE to build an internet connected fridge that takes all security precautions and never gets hacked into. Much like the multi-layers of an OS local networks need layers of access starting with a secure router that can handle security instead of expecting each device to be secure on its own.
Most likly a google of WoW popped up a Leeroy site and they didn't really follow through.. Or maybe they did..
I'm sure there are scammers everyone. Though as all colleges in China are staterun its probably not as much of a problem.. Though I've met PhDs from respectable US college with no clue, infact know one who litterly paid someone else for all the research/data analysis for her thesis and passed.
They got the point a long time ago.. Most likly they are feeling the policial and legal pressure.
Which will be..... never..
For some odd reason it works in Korea... Not quite sure why.
But simply put watching a computer game is boring, the only people willing to pay to watch would be other high level gamers. Not quite unlike golf I guess... Oh well nevermind... I guess gamers just have to have enough money
But how did he get it to support Dos or the flash drive????
Well yes you need a 360 as well. Would be interesting if the display versions at walmart will include these demos as well.
Review talks about the "realistic" motion blur.
Having recently played such a game I can say that motion blur in racing games are generally unrealistic. Anyone seen this one? is it overdone or just right?
Oh duh.. I feel stupid now.. Your probably right 9GB is a double layer disk. So they take a double layer disk incorperate the media codec for Hi-def tv into it so that you can made a hi-def movie on a regular DVD (abit holds less than 2 hours probably) I could definatly see the point.. Gawd do I feel stupid.
I believe most have already backed Blue-Ray according to past slashdot articles. Sony learned its lesson about Porn from betamax.
At 9GB the short answer is no. Most likly the laser spacings will be tighter, this adjustment can be done easily on the production lines, but much more difficult to do on the average player.
What its saying is that end users can choose to put their own files up in the network, all file choices belong to AOL. Not saying it can't be hacked of course.
As well I have seen MANY web counter sites and whatnot who could potentially do much the same things. I definatly trust google over freecounters.com don't you? Did anyone even think about freecounters ability to screw us over? No?
Yes, but believe it or not many people in europe live outside of the cities, but you can litterly take public transportation almost anywhere in these places. One of the few examples I think where there should be higher tax in this country. Of course now its too late as our infrastructure is too far behind. We would have to build the infrastructure first then increase the tax (allowing commerical exeptions.) otherwise we would cripple the economy. Its sad that the huge transportation bill past a few months ago included little for public transport, I know there are changes being made post Katrina (mostly cost cutting though) hopefully some money will be shifted as well.
Personally i think Europe has it good. I'd be willing to pay $10 per gallon if there were infrastructure TODAY allowing me to get to work without using my personal car. Unfortunatly in many cities this simply isn't the case.
Ignoring the anti-government retoric its generally accepted within the physics community that if time travel is ever possible you can only go back in time as far as the existance of the time machine. Essentially you have to make a machine that digs a tunnel through time, then you can travel back and forth through that tunnel. And yes this would really screw up the economy, you couldn't exactly go back in time and get things from the past. Economically speaking time would stand still from the point of invention on. All the timeline points of which the machine existed would be interconnected and be the same time, especially if you somehow figured out a way to send information along it.
You mean Nintendo and Sony?
They arn't aruging against the classification, they simply state that the anti-spyware company is forbidden from ever installing their software. The rest of the arguement goes, if you classified us, you must have installed us at some point in time.
Yea but have you seen the licensing cost of OWA?? outragious.
Its kinda silly to worry about the newtons of force as the larger the astroid the more newtons it would require to move, in fact its a linear relationship. So that no matter the size of the astroid the speed inwhich the astroid will move is the same.. Thats gravity for you.. :) Now the newtons is important as the spacecraft will need its thrusters to push it in the opposite direction with that many newtons, and I'd imagine that could become the hard part.
:)
BTW 10^8 newtons on a 9E19KG object would produce 1.1E-12 m/s^2 acceleration.
thats 3.5E-5 M for the first year.
It'll speed up a bit after that!
So why not use a 40 tons spacecraft..
Well once its in space a combination of nuclear/solar power fuel would probably be sufficent for moving around and towing.
Crew? Why would this need a crew? a computer could do this job easily and you could provide basic commands remotely abit with a large time delay.
No reason to reenter earths atmosphere, this wouldn't be damaged in anyway by pulling an astroid. You simply need to being it back in orbit if you need to do regular mantainence and this baby would be ready at minimal cost to defend against future astroids.