You're dealing with so many patients that the hospitals won't have room to stack them, let alone time to look up their records.
There won't be enough Tylenol in the infirmary, let alone more exotic drugs like antivirals.
The United States has approximately 548 doctors, 280 hospital beds and 772 nurses per 100,000 people.
In a pandemic with 50% infected, each doctor would have to care for twenty people, and each nurse for twelve. Those hospital beds would be somewhat overloaded with twenty people in them, too.
DVD read speed at 12x, max (in order, from beginning to end, no random seeks): 15.85MB/s Hard disk read speed (average sustained large chunks ~64KB+): 58.7MB/s
Do you have any questions now? The answer is very simple: hard drives are far faster.
I actually played Meridian 59 when it first came out. No offense, but I wasn't that impressed. Then again, I'm not really a MMO-gamer, so I'm probably not a target demographic (it all went downhill after the original Neverwinter Nights:)
I was looking at someone like stardock, in particular the fact that they have basically built a game based on what they would want (from the beginning with GalCiv for OS/2)
Obviously, they've supported themselves with other projects in the meantime, but it looks very likely that they're going to get some darn good sales from GalCiv2, all based on a game that was essentially only publicized by the fact that it was in the store along with their other OS/2 products.
I'm not saying marketing isn't important, but rather, a better game will have strong success and fanbase beyond the initial sales (much as I imagine Meridian 59 has had, given that people presumably still play it...)
Because honestly, no offense, but if you get paid a decent amount for it, the companies should be spending that money on better developers to improve their (largely shitty, nowadays) games.
It's the old, "Be careful what you ask for" routine.
For instance, a while back, the government was asking Google for a bunch of search result data to prove their dubious claims about online pornography intentionally invading non-pornographic searches.
I kinda wanted to see them deliver a semi-trailer full of paper with search results in 8pt font on front and back and say "Here you go!"
They use permanent magnets to get the extra energy. They don't count that in their input energy, however. Obviously, when these magnets die they will need to be replaced. Are you kidding me?
The reason they're called 'permanent' magnets is that they do not wear out. You cannot get energy from magnets.
part A is totally off the wall. We have no idea how a FTL drive would work, and thus have no grounds to speculate about side effects.
part B is also totally off the wall, as relativistic effects show up whenever you move at any given speed compared to any other object. It's RELATIVE. So, for example, compared to the center of the galaxy we're moving very fast. But compared to your chair, you are almost still. As a real world example: GPS sats compensate for a real, measured relativistic slowdown in their clocks (because they are in orbit)
Compressed air has such low energy density per volume that it makes hydrogen look positively stellar by comparison.
Compressed air: 17 watt/hours per liter Liquid Hydrogen: 2600 watt/hours per liter
For a 50l fuel tank (standard on my car), you get the equivalent of 12 liters of gasoline (in energy equivalent) from LH2, and the equivalent of a tenth of a liter from compressed air.
The upside to the in-ear phones, as someone said above, is that you can leave one out and get some music while also hearing a knock on your door or the telephone.
'A 22 year out of college kid may know how to code some stuff, but they're VASTLY inadequate for medium to large sized projects.'
That's a gross generalization. There are kernel maintainers who are still in high school (last I heard, anyhow). I'm 22 and I've been using PHP to build CMS systems since I was 16, which is coincidentally when PHP 3 came out.
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That's like telling people that horse-and-buggy do the trick fine.
If you've got this blazing-fast hard disk there, why not use it?
Also, if the 360 is at all like the original Xbox, running from hard disk will be much, much faster on that platform as well.
Be glad they make use of it on PC.
No, no they don't. You'd do no good.
You're dealing with so many patients that the hospitals won't have room to stack them, let alone time to look up their records.
There won't be enough Tylenol in the infirmary, let alone more exotic drugs like antivirals.
The United States has approximately 548 doctors, 280 hospital beds and 772 nurses per 100,000 people.
In a pandemic with 50% infected, each doctor would have to care for twenty people, and each nurse for twelve. Those hospital beds would be somewhat overloaded with twenty people in them, too.
DVD read speed at 12x, max (in order, from beginning to end, no random seeks): 15.85MB/s
Hard disk read speed (average sustained large chunks ~64KB+): 58.7MB/s
Do you have any questions now? The answer is very simple: hard drives are far faster.
My bad, 4500 is nonexistent, I was thinking of the 4600 (probably my next purchase)
Actually, it depends to a great extent on WHICH Athlon 64 you're running, how fast your ram is, and what socket the processor is running on.
Don't assume that just because you use a magically delicious architecture for your CPU that you are going to never worry about it again.
An AMD64 2800+ on socket 754 with 512mb of high-latency (generic) ram will not perform at all up to par on some modern games.
Whereas a 4500+ X2 on socket 939 with 2gb of CAS-2 OCZ ram will be blazing fast.
It's like price fixing. There's a covert agreement that "customer service doesn't matter" and so they all do an equal job of it.
Ever seen the dilbert strip where he defines telephone companies as "confusopolies" it always makes me think of mobile phone companies.
I actually played Meridian 59 when it first came out. No offense, but I wasn't that impressed. Then again, I'm not really a MMO-gamer, so I'm probably not a target demographic (it all went downhill after the original Neverwinter Nights :)
I was looking at someone like stardock, in particular the fact that they have basically built a game based on what they would want (from the beginning with GalCiv for OS/2)
Obviously, they've supported themselves with other projects in the meantime, but it looks very likely that they're going to get some darn good sales from GalCiv2, all based on a game that was essentially only publicized by the fact that it was in the store along with their other OS/2 products.
I'm not saying marketing isn't important, but rather, a better game will have strong success and fanbase beyond the initial sales (much as I imagine Meridian 59 has had, given that people presumably still play it...)
Just curious, how well did it pay?
Because honestly, no offense, but if you get paid a decent amount for it, the companies should be spending that money on better developers to improve their (largely shitty, nowadays) games.
It's the old, "Be careful what you ask for" routine.
For instance, a while back, the government was asking Google for a bunch of search result data to prove their dubious claims about online pornography intentionally invading non-pornographic searches.
I kinda wanted to see them deliver a semi-trailer full of paper with search results in 8pt font on front and back and say "Here you go!"
Seems like you could just mount the laser on a pintle, then it would shake when...
oh, wait... Digital, d'oh.
They use permanent magnets to get the extra energy. They don't count that in their input energy, however. Obviously, when these magnets die they will need to be replaced.
Are you kidding me?
The reason they're called 'permanent' magnets is that they do not wear out. You cannot get energy from magnets.
Simple, I speculate!
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No, but seriously, it's easy to comment on the world without seeing it.
What's difficult is to comment ACCURATELY or CORRECTLY
part A is totally off the wall. We have no idea how a FTL drive would work, and thus have no grounds to speculate about side effects.
part B is also totally off the wall, as relativistic effects show up whenever you move at any given speed compared to any other object. It's RELATIVE. So, for example, compared to the center of the galaxy we're moving very fast. But compared to your chair, you are almost still. As a real world example: GPS sats compensate for a real, measured relativistic slowdown in their clocks (because they are in orbit)
Thought I would inject some physics into things.
Yes, but I'm presuming that it's running on rosetta right now, as that would be the quick and easy way to port it across.
What I mean is, the speed increase between a translation app (as Darwine is on PPC) vs a native code wrapper (as I gather wine is on x86)
Also, I'm presuming you're probably not running it on a mactel right now.
Therefore... I expect you'll see speed improvements once a large portion of their userbase is moved to intel.
just wait till it's macintel and the speed jumps 3
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a 200 gallon gas tank isn't outrageous?!? Not to mention one that has to hold 300 bar...
Your average side-mounted diesel truck tank only hold 50 gallons. Picture four of those, reinforced to withstand 300 bar. That's a lot.
Compressed air has such low energy density per volume that it makes hydrogen look positively stellar by comparison.
Compressed air: 17 watt/hours per liter
Liquid Hydrogen: 2600 watt/hours per liter
For a 50l fuel tank (standard on my car), you get the equivalent of 12 liters of gasoline (in energy equivalent) from LH2, and the equivalent of a tenth of a liter from compressed air.
Something about your comment reminds me of transmetropolitan
"I so badly want to kill everyone in this room right now. Even the children...
Especially the children."
Gotta love the spite.
Yeah that'd be the difference there... Europe vs the US.
Here, we get rock-bottom service at deluxe prices, including the aforementioned limited access.
Actually it's more like recording movies on HBO with your VCR.
Which was, incidentally, ruled entirely legal for personal use.
The upside to the in-ear phones, as someone said above, is that you can leave one out and get some music while also hearing a knock on your door or the telephone.
Some of what you say is true, however...
'A 22 year out of college kid may know how to code some stuff, but they're VASTLY inadequate for medium to large sized projects.'
That's a gross generalization. There are kernel maintainers who are still in high school (last I heard, anyhow). I'm 22 and I've been using PHP to build CMS systems since I was 16, which is coincidentally when PHP 3 came out.
Young != inexperienced
Thanks.
Depends whether they can do better than break even on additional licenses for Symantec Stormsewer, Symantec Brotherwatch, and Symantec Antimayhem.
I dropped you an email as well. Fascinating stuff. Hope slashdot doesn't crush you in fanmail