I have the the ClearType option turned on my CRT. It makes a huge difference on 19" monitors. The font smoothing makes regular fonts look like someone's chicken scratch.
With the explosiveness of some people's farts maybe you could power a small car. Or at least harness the methane from it, for those people fart all day...putt putt!
In the final round of the 63rd Tenka'ichi Budokai, contestants Blue Gene and SkyNet battle it out!...
SkyNet sends out a massive army of T-800s at Blue Gene. Blue Gene fires a Demon Cannon and reduces SkyNet to rubble. SkyNet regenerates itself from a single surviving neural net chip. One of SkyNet's puny T-800s throws a Destructo Disc and manages to lop off Blue Gene's top half. A Blue Gene engineer slaps a few thousand processors on Blue Gene and it's back in action. SkyNet gets desperate with a 20-fold Kaio-Ken Kamehameha! This engrages Blue Gene, and it turns into a giant glowing Blue Monkey. Blue Gene stomps around, crushing SkyNet's army and SkyNet itself. SkyNet lies on the ground totally immobilized and defenceless.... Is this the end?!
I think M$ wants every game to be Live enabled so that they can detect modchips. Thusly, defeating piracy, 3rd party software, or maybe even other OSes...
After a hectic study life, I'd get me a nice big juicy woman, have some kids, get a few leases on a couple of cars, mortgage a house or two (rent the other one out), cruise around the world enough times so that you can hurl overboard without getting your tux messy, have tea with Sir Richard Branson and Steve Fawcett on a balloon over the Himalayas (maybe throw U2 on there for some afternoon entertainment), negotiate some peace talks with North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, and the US, and why not round things off with breakfast at Milliways. Oh yeah, don't forget to throw "get a job" somewhere in there. It doesn't matter where. Most people get a few along the way.
May this is one of those inkblots, but in a wooden form...How you interpret it may reveal your current psychological conflicts and processes...As for me, I think it's a penguin.
Given that the.NET platform will be supported on the Cluster version, it may make the cluster computing market more accessible to companies who currently employ big mac flipping vb programmers. A standard platform for companies to develop for would certainly make it easier to produce software for the ever increasing complex configurations of clusters, homogenous or otherwise. This should free up a lot of time for the researcher to run experiments. Why should researchers spend more time worrying about parallel algorithms and optimization routines than about their own projects? I see M$ going into the Cluster market like how it introduced DirectX to make audio and video programming easier for the average programmer. Of course, OpenGL was already available at the time, but that's another story. Not every researcher (or undergrad student) is an expert Fortran programmer.
I think the grandparent was referring to the fact that the original anime distributors aren't releasing a product with English subtitles *simultaneously* with the Japanese release. If the distributors did that, then you could harp on the otakus for not buying the DVDs after their release.
Well, you could argue that the otakus should have the patience to wait the necessary time before the DVDs are released. And how likely is it that the anime that they watch will be released on DVD, let alone with an English version. Quitely these days, no matter how badly the original idea was conceived or how many times it's already been previously released on DVD (read: Star Wars). By that time, the us distributors will have cut episodes, edit scenes, change names, etc, but that's an aside.
Companies worry that the easy prerelease availability of fansub versions means that the otaku class has already seen their products, and no longer need to buy anything but the must-haves.
The must-haves are must-haves for a reason. Just because the anime exists doesn't mean fans are *required* to buy the DVDs. Aren't companies supposed to add features that make the DVD worth having, like 20 hrs worth of audio commentaries and 50 commercials of products branded by the characters of the said anime?
Well, if they make a compiler that checks to see if a program is correct, they will have to make it check if it's sound as well.
Does the checksum of the file that it just saved to disk match what's in memory? Is it correct? Or did the user issue the 'revert to last saved copy' command rather than the 'save to disk' command? So then if the program saved when it was supposed to restore, it would have really messed up. Is it sound?
The last part would be particualarly hard to do, because how could the verifying compiler match the program code to the functional requirements? Really, if the compiler could do that then we could write a program to develop software. And then every programmer would be out of a job.
Most doctors you see in the family doctor's office would rather trust their experience and instincts, and spend 30 seconds scribbling out a perscription for a general antibiotic than spend 10 minutes extracting a live sample, running it through a DNA microchip, and analysing the results.
The patient is just another queued item. Just process that item as quickly as possible, receive the payment, and move onto the next.
Wasn't Microsoft planning to fix this problem in future versions of Windows by using virtual copies of the registry, so that each program could see its own copy of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and do whatever it wanted to to the key because its copy wouldn't be the "real" master copy?
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I have the the ClearType option turned on my CRT. It makes a huge difference on 19" monitors. The font smoothing makes regular fonts look like someone's chicken scratch.
With the explosiveness of some people's farts maybe you could power a small car. Or at least harness the methane from it, for those people fart all day...putt putt!
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
In the final round of the 63rd Tenka'ichi Budokai, contestants Blue Gene and SkyNet battle it out!...
SkyNet sends out a massive army of T-800s at Blue Gene. Blue Gene fires a Demon Cannon and reduces SkyNet to rubble. SkyNet regenerates itself from a single surviving neural net chip. One of SkyNet's puny T-800s throws a Destructo Disc and manages to lop off Blue Gene's top half. A Blue Gene engineer slaps a few thousand processors on Blue Gene and it's back in action. SkyNet gets desperate with a 20-fold Kaio-Ken Kamehameha! This engrages Blue Gene, and it turns into a giant glowing Blue Monkey. Blue Gene stomps around, crushing SkyNet's army and SkyNet itself. SkyNet lies on the ground totally immobilized and defenceless.... Is this the end?!
Or just copy the curriculum for the local university's cs 101 class: computer science class for non-cs majors.
I think M$ wants every game to be Live enabled so that they can detect modchips. Thusly, defeating piracy, 3rd party software, or maybe even other OSes...
After a hectic study life, I'd get me a nice big juicy woman, have some kids, get a few leases on a couple of cars, mortgage a house or two (rent the other one out), cruise around the world enough times so that you can hurl overboard without getting your tux messy, have tea with Sir Richard Branson and Steve Fawcett on a balloon over the Himalayas (maybe throw U2 on there for some afternoon entertainment), negotiate some peace talks with North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, and the US, and why not round things off with breakfast at Milliways. Oh yeah, don't forget to throw "get a job" somewhere in there. It doesn't matter where. Most people get a few along the way.
May this is one of those inkblots, but in a wooden form...How you interpret it may reveal your current psychological conflicts and processes...As for me, I think it's a penguin.
Given that the .NET platform will be supported on the Cluster version, it may make the cluster computing market more accessible to companies who currently employ big mac flipping vb programmers. A standard platform for companies to develop for would certainly make it easier to produce software for the ever increasing complex configurations of clusters, homogenous or otherwise. This should free up a lot of time for the researcher to run experiments. Why should researchers spend more time worrying about parallel algorithms and optimization routines than about their own projects? I see M$ going into the Cluster market like how it introduced DirectX to make audio and video programming easier for the average programmer. Of course, OpenGL was already available at the time, but that's another story. Not every researcher (or undergrad student) is an expert Fortran programmer.
Where does one piss while on a 67 hr non-stop flight?
Well, if they make a compiler that checks to see if a program is correct, they will have to make it check if it's sound as well.
Does the checksum of the file that it just saved to disk match what's in memory? Is it correct? Or did the user issue the 'revert to last saved copy' command rather than the 'save to disk' command? So then if the program saved when it was supposed to restore, it would have really messed up. Is it sound?
The last part would be particualarly hard to do, because how could the verifying compiler match the program code to the functional requirements? Really, if the compiler could do that then we could write a program to develop software. And then every programmer would be out of a job.
Most doctors you see in the family doctor's office would rather trust their experience and instincts, and spend 30 seconds scribbling out a perscription for a general antibiotic than spend 10 minutes extracting a live sample, running it through a DNA microchip, and analysing the results.
The patient is just another queued item. Just process that item as quickly as possible, receive the payment, and move onto the next.
Wasn't Microsoft planning to fix this problem in future versions of Windows by using virtual copies of the registry, so that each program could see its own copy of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and do whatever it wanted to to the key because its copy wouldn't be the "real" master copy?