Joe consumer never buys machines with enough RAM- because Dell etc make a big deal about their systems having 4.0 Ghz processors, but in the smaller print, the system comes with something like a paltry 128 Megs of RAM. If the level system implies an acceptable amount of ram, then that's great.
What does designing the lane for that kind of speed entail? Its a straight line, and as long as your vehicle fits through the hole, you can do so at any speed. Are you one of those people who slows down to squeak through small spots? Do you hold your breath in too?
I could have sworn one optometrist i went to a few years ago had a machine that automatcially brought an image into focus for me. Way cooler than this stone-age notion of looking at the eye chart as the "doctor" flips lenses. Which one is clearer, one or two. Why do we keep doing this stone age crap?
I'm all for automatic vision testing, I feel like my current prescription was issued by a talentless hack.
Automatically testing vision and cranking out lenses is sweet. Next they just need to fire on an AR coating and everyone is good to go.
I saw a great article, maybe on k5, that shows how much extra energy is used to create a gallon of ethanol vs. a gallon of gas, and the gallon of ethanol actually contains LESS energy than the gallon of gas. There's definately a whole lot of heat death going on in this system.
I just read yesterday in the firebird documentation that it has a 250 millisecond pause built in before rendering so as to not have to reflow the page as much as bytes stream in. It can be deactivated as in the instructions here So that'll make it a little faster I think
I'm curious about this point: if you have say a 300 Watt power supply in your computer, but your computer guts only draw 200 Watts, does that mean 300 Watts is dissipated into the room, or 200 Watts and the other 100 watts is never "used"?
I was under the impression from several sources that the genome was decoded by a bunch of perl scripts piped together (since it is really just a big text processing job). Is there a link to this VB assertion? Even if VB was controlling the machines, I'm sure it wasn't doing the heavy lifting.
Ok, well technically that is true. It had an activation like code in order to play online. That code also wasn't tied to one machine, so maybe its nothing like activation at all;)
that movies play on a billion screens on the first weekend? It used to be that there was a danger of not being able to see a movie on opening weekend, but now that the multiplex has the movie starting every half hour, all the real demand for the movie is satsified in weekend zero, and hence the sharp dropoff?? Or does that make too much sense?
Not sure if anyone covered this yet, but wouldn't you want to duty cycle the various colored LED's so that you can blend lots of different colors. You don't need actual relays to switch this level of power do you?
Um, no. You just share bandwidth with everyone else a little futher from your house. Its like switched ethernet vs. un-switched. You're still sharing upstream of the switch either way. DSL providers so misrepresent this truth compared to cable modems.
Gameboy advance seems to be a super nintendo is a really small box. All the games are just games from SNES renamed "Advance". What's the big deal? Even in a smaller package with a flip top, they're still games I played a DECADE ago.
I totally agree with you, the only time I *really* wish my car could drive is if I want to get totally drunk at some bar and have a safe ride, the rest of the time, I'll drive thanks!:) If driving wasn't enjoyable, people wouldn't buy nice/fast cars.
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Joe consumer never buys machines with enough RAM- because Dell etc make a big deal about their systems having 4.0 Ghz processors, but in the smaller print, the system comes with something like a paltry 128 Megs of RAM. If the level system implies an acceptable amount of ram, then that's great.
IBM hasn't made any of those laptop models in years. Why the big recall now all of a sudden?
What does designing the lane for that kind of speed entail? Its a straight line, and as long as your vehicle fits through the hole, you can do so at any speed.
Are you one of those people who slows down to squeak through small spots? Do you hold your breath in too?
You'd think so, but no we use some total hack of a tool that was written internally.
My work thinkpad T40 last well over 4 hours with it's tumor style extra large battery
I could have sworn one optometrist i went to a few years ago had a machine that automatcially brought an image into focus for me. Way cooler than this stone-age notion of looking at the eye chart as the "doctor" flips lenses. Which one is clearer, one or two. Why do we keep doing this stone age crap?
I'm all for automatic vision testing, I feel like my current prescription was issued by a talentless hack.
Automatically testing vision and cranking out lenses is sweet. Next they just need to fire on an AR coating and everyone is good to go.
I saw a great article, maybe on k5, that shows how much extra energy is used to create a gallon of ethanol vs. a gallon of gas, and the gallon of ethanol actually contains LESS energy than the gallon of gas. There's definately a whole lot of heat death going on in this system.
We need to break out the CFCs and get us a hole in that pesky ozone layer so we can get those UV rays to our ground based telescopes!
I just read yesterday in the firebird documentation that it has a 250 millisecond pause built in before rendering so as to not have to reflow the page as much as bytes stream in. It can be deactivated as in the instructions here
So that'll make it a little faster I think
Don't count on that. There are products to allow companies to snoop on IM conversations at the firewall.
I'm curious about this point: if you have say a 300 Watt power supply in your computer, but your computer guts only draw 200 Watts, does that mean 300 Watts is dissipated into the room, or 200 Watts and the other 100 watts is never "used"?
Sounds like something you should probably automate yourself anyways.. hmm but then you'd be out of your job.
I love my TI-89.. God bless symbolic integration.
:)
I've had a Ti-82, 86, and then the 89. Its like an arms race with your professors really
I was under the impression from several sources that the genome was decoded by a bunch of perl scripts piped together (since it is really just a big text processing job). Is there a link to this VB assertion? Even if VB was controlling the machines, I'm sure it wasn't doing the heavy lifting.
Ok, well technically that is true. It had an activation like code in order to play online. That code also wasn't tied to one machine, so maybe its nothing like activation at all ;)
Quake 3 had an activation code like this too, get over it.
its "open source" so they changed a whole bunch of stuff, including the hard coded limits
that movies play on a billion screens on the first weekend? It used to be that there was a danger of not being able to see a movie on opening weekend, but now that the multiplex has the movie starting every half hour, all the real demand for the movie is satsified in weekend zero, and hence the sharp dropoff??
Or does that make too much sense?
Like the "innocent" officers of Nazi Germany? If you don't do anything to stop the problem, you're part of the problem.
Cute until you realize you can't use a switch statement!
Not sure if anyone covered this yet, but wouldn't you want to duty cycle the various colored LED's so that you can blend lots of different colors. You don't need actual relays to switch this level of power do you?
Um, no. You just share bandwidth with everyone else a little futher from your house. Its like switched ethernet vs. un-switched. You're still sharing upstream of the switch either way.
DSL providers so misrepresent this truth compared to cable modems.
Gameboy advance seems to be a super nintendo is a really small box. All the games are just games from SNES renamed "Advance". What's the big deal? Even in a smaller package with a flip top, they're still games I played a DECADE ago.
I totally agree with you, the only time I *really* wish my car could drive is if I want to get totally drunk at some bar and have a safe ride, the rest of the time, I'll drive thanks! :)
If driving wasn't enjoyable, people wouldn't buy nice/fast cars.