You don't really *need* a 240Hz screen. Or rather, you only need one if you want to game at 60FPS. If you're willing to accept a 30FPS rate (the standard in the playstation era, and faster than a movie framerate) you can do it on 120 Hz. The console probably wants to run at that framerate anyway, since I doubt it wants to render a single-player's worth of junk twice as fast as normal.
There is a free iPhone dragon client, which sends the audio back to their servers for processing. There isn't any training, but there probably wouldn't be training on a family member's old tapes either.
It's possible that Dragon might work for their needs, or at least be much easier to get equally bad data back as other solutions. Try the iPhone client and see.
In North Korea at least, it would likely be US on their shores, supporting a South Korean army. At that point, North Korea has however many planes they have on land vs our 90-planes-per-carrier. If they can throw enough crop dusters at the ships, the could exhaust their defenses.
In China, there is really no doubt that our 10 supercarriers would not be able to hold off a ground-based air assault. We'd need to establish solid restocking lines across the pacific, which kind of defeats the purpose of aircraft carriers that self-power for 20 years.
So in that way, used offensively (or in support of an ally), a naval attack on land is asymmetric. The volume of land-based weaponry helps counter the effectiveness of our 4.5 billion dollar carriers.
Also, I have to wonder if a laser system like this might be effective at shooting down enemies that have things like Phalanx systems. We don't have conventional defenses yet for lasers (at least, not that we're talking about), and the nimblist Nimitz moves slower than my electric bicycle. If you can get effective range beyond a traditional uranium shell-based system, you could get within range to take out those defenses, then pound with traditional missile projectiles.
I can't find exact numbers, but 20mm ammunition like the Phalanx defense system uses can cost ballpark $20 per shot (The real numbers are probably different). A magazine of these is 1,500 shots, which it can consume in 20 seconds. That's ninety-thousand dollars to fire a traditional missile defense gun for 1 minute. The anti-mortar missiles planned for Israel were slated to cost 25k a pop. I can't imagine a test fire of the missile side of the Phalanx system would be any less.
I'm not in the military, but the idea of consuming power that is already being produced, rather than expensive (and fast-consumed) ammunition, is quite appealing.
This is actually being done with more purpose-built offshore ships. Russia has the first, I believe. It's both a nuclear power plant and a desalinization plant (steam and all) for regions where contiguous traditional nuclear plants are impractical.
Theoretically, catastrophic failure should lead to an icy end of the possibility of an uncontrolled reaction. Famous last words, of course.
Good breakdown. It should be pointed out, that the lasers in this case are referred to as solid state. And the carriers in question are things like the Nimitz, which are nuclear.
There may be maintenance and other consumable chemicals to take on and dispose of. But this sounds pretty much like a complete system that can keep firing pretty much as long as the supercarrier's electrical system isn't too damaged. And that's something that existing systems can't claim.
I'd be curious to see what the countermeasures to a system like this might be. Some sort of deflective chaff? Sufficient amounts of water vapor? 32kW should have a lot of penetration.
Most non-textbooks are just straight text with some careful line breaks and bad font choices. I'd argue that the digital parallel is pretty close. Of course, ebook capability should track pretty closely with the less interactive portions of HTML5, or PDF. There is no reason why it couldn't include properly positioned photographs, diagrams, font tricks, etc.
At a fundamental level, you can have a paper copy of a PDF file from a publisher, or you can have a digital copy of a PDF file from a publisher.
My fiancee's mother is a librarian. She has a shelf of classics which she carefully guards, ensuring that they stay as pristine as the day they were bought. She reads every book at least three times, and re-reads her favorites over the years.
I have a series of shelves of dirty, messed up books with folded corners, coffee stains, and highlights. There are so many good books out there, that I hardly ever get around to re-reading any of the old ones.
Both styles involve a bit of vanity. "Hey look, I love books and they're perfect." "You can see how much I love books by how lived in they are." Honestly, if used book stores were still taking used books, I'd drop most of these off with them.
What if your eReader was your phone? And Amazon let you re-download all of your books to any device? I would much rather get rid of the concept of losing any books.
Digital downloads of music will never outpace CD's, because once CD's leave the hands of the vendor they also leave the control of the vendor. Wait, that happened.
There is a road by my house that my GPS will route people 20 minutes around to avoid. The road is about 30 feet long. Even if it was backed up all of the way, it's still only one light's worth of cars.
I can't wait for the realtime data uploading from cars to GPS databases that phone-based GPS allows. Imagine not just traffic reports, but traffic predictions based upon time of day, day of week, month of year, and ambient other traffic in the area. "There is a high correlation between traffic in the area of Fenway Park and traffic on I-93. We only have 1 driver on I-93 right now, but it's probably totally backed up."
And you could flag areas where drivers don't behave as expected... for example not taking intersections that should be, or consistently driving slower than the stated limit, etc, then manually check these for errors. You could automatically tune time estimates and route selection parameters based upon the particular area / city.
The writing Tennant had to work with was also much sharper. Comparing the two lines above. Tennant had 4 sentences to work with. Matt had make it work in 8. Tennant's lines implied so much. Matt had to physically say everything, and even has a redundancy to get around. In short, Tennant was working with better material, while Matt's writers are just getting a sense for the new feel of the updated series.
As another comparison, Tennant had a climactic battle against the nightmare scenario of Daleks and Cybermen converging on the earth. Matt's single season finale is framed by Daleks, Cyberzombies, Atraxi, Silurian, Jadoons, and bunches of other alien races that just serve to dilute, rather than reinforce, the strength of the episode. In Tennant's episode, you really see the interplay between the two nightmare species. In Matt's, the wad of aliens are just serving as a big nebulous blob of boogymen.
I had some hesitation about Matt as a doctor, but I really feel like he has found the character's groove, insomuch as the writing will allow. But the writing has been thick and kludgy, better suited to The Sarah Jane Adventures than Doctor Who.
Most actors who get "that one amazing role" never do anything else. Typecast or not doesn't matter. The fall of the dice is against a single breakout hit translating into a stardom career.
Is it "typecasting?" Harrison Ford and John Travolta have had their share of typeroles, but have done very well overall. Sharon Stone, on the other hand, has had to prove that she's not just that Basic Instinct woman, and can actually act. Mark Hamill is firmly set in people's minds as Luke Skywalker, except for the millions who know him as the voice of the Joker. Robert Englund never got away from Freddy, but he has had a great run of it.
A lot of actors have translated a successful single role into a long and successful career. I'm sure Leonard Nimoy et / al would like to be respected as actors in their own rights and see a career bloom outside of what they did 40 years ago. But they've also traveled the world, hobnobbed with other famous people, and lived full, rich lives. Most actors just wind up working in parking lots or corporate security. Compared to the risks of being typecast, the risks of fading away into the working actors stiffs seems so much more frightening.
They did have a great moment where the doctor comes into Amy's wedding, and refers to Rory at "Mr Pond." Rory looks at the doctor and says "I'm not Mr. Pond. That's not how it works." The doctor gives him a sad smile and says "Yeah it is." Rory looks momentarily sad and agrees. Rory as a character realizing that he's basically useless is an interesting twist, which I hope they utilize better than Mickey realizing that he's a tin dog.
(end spoilers)
I feel like they're taking the series away from the "adult" themes established by Russel T Davies (Head writer for Dr Who and creator of Queer as Folk). The team seems to be trying to recapture the feeling that they had about the doctor in the 70's and 80's when they were growing up. Also, Russel had a degree of faith in the intelligence of his audience that Steven Moffet doesn't quite have. Which is to say, Moffet seems to badger the audience over the head with "the point" or every individual plot point, where Russel tended to spend time exploring intricacies and nuances.
Smith finally felt like he was hitting his stride with the last few episodes of this season. He's suffering a bit from the loss of one of the best television writers of recent memory, and Moffat needing to learn to trust the audience. But next season had lots of promise.
Tennant is a favorite of mine. A big reason for that is just his desire to play the role... He obviously loved the doctor as a character, and that love and attention-to-detail really showed on screen. He was having the time of his life with that character, and we were having it watching him.
Seeing Eccleston bail so quickly on a character that would be a dream for many actors just broke my heart. Hearing Matt Smith is feeling the same way is going to taint the next season.
As a side note, doesn't the Doctor technically have one regeneration left after Matt? Or is it two?
To be fair, a lot of things are obvious in retrospect. It's obvious now that a round object with a shaft down the middle might be used to easily carry weight, but the wheel wasn't discovered by all cultures and has no parallel in nature. One-click... that's obvious.
There are many moments of "Oh yeah, why didn't anyone think of that?" It's not a solution to a math problem, it's a stroke of creative intuition. In retrospect, those strokes seem obvious. But without seeing someone else do it first, however, nobody else might ever have thought of it.
Warrants are used for entry and seizure of property. He didn't "own" any of the things the company was hosting for him: the hosting company had a right to terminate him as a customer on a moment's notice. And they did.
Really, the only major issue is not being informed of the accusations against him or his clients. But it sounds like the plan is to inform him shortly.
They might have been advised against saying "we screwed up" by their legal department. Directly admitting a design flaw might open them up for other liabilities.
Have you ever touched a TV antenna? What did that do to the signal?
An exposed metal antenna is an obvious potential point of failure. Having multiple exposed antennas for different radiation bands, which a user might accidentally bridge, should have been tested thoroughly for this exact problem.
Balls get dropped. It happens all the time. This was not one of those problems that couldn't be forseen or tested for. This was a problem that should have been caught in testing, if not design. Someone screwed up. People screw up, it happens. But someone screwed up.
If you're in that country, rupee usage should be common enough to be assumed.
If you're far away from that country, chances are you don't have any idea what the hell that symbol is. And being a symbol, it's almost impossible to look up.
Really, this will help people on the borders of the country, or who interact with India all of the time. It's a nice shorthand for 15 R Indian.
To everyone else, it's one more confusing Kanji they will never be able to look up.
Aren't soldiers already complaining about the weight of all of the junk they have to carry? Devices that take away their mechanical energy, or reduce the temperature difference between them and the surrounding environment, seem like a good way of making things harder.
Maybe they won't have to carry all of the extra batteries, which will help. But power-generating shoes are inherently mushy and feel like running through mud, as is all of the other ways of generating power from human movement. It's not free energy.
While I don't disagree that NVIDIA needs to make this simpler, is that really a sizeable market for them? Presuming every college will want a cluster of 100 GPU's, they've still got about 10,000 students per college buying these things to game with.
I wonder what the size of the server room market for something that can't handle IF statements really would be.
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You don't really *need* a 240Hz screen. Or rather, you only need one if you want to game at 60FPS. If you're willing to accept a 30FPS rate (the standard in the playstation era, and faster than a movie framerate) you can do it on 120 Hz. The console probably wants to run at that framerate anyway, since I doubt it wants to render a single-player's worth of junk twice as fast as normal.
There is a free iPhone dragon client, which sends the audio back to their servers for processing. There isn't any training, but there probably wouldn't be training on a family member's old tapes either.
It's possible that Dragon might work for their needs, or at least be much easier to get equally bad data back as other solutions. Try the iPhone client and see.
In North Korea at least, it would likely be US on their shores, supporting a South Korean army. At that point, North Korea has however many planes they have on land vs our 90-planes-per-carrier. If they can throw enough crop dusters at the ships, the could exhaust their defenses.
In China, there is really no doubt that our 10 supercarriers would not be able to hold off a ground-based air assault. We'd need to establish solid restocking lines across the pacific, which kind of defeats the purpose of aircraft carriers that self-power for 20 years.
So in that way, used offensively (or in support of an ally), a naval attack on land is asymmetric. The volume of land-based weaponry helps counter the effectiveness of our 4.5 billion dollar carriers.
Also, I have to wonder if a laser system like this might be effective at shooting down enemies that have things like Phalanx systems. We don't have conventional defenses yet for lasers (at least, not that we're talking about), and the nimblist Nimitz moves slower than my electric bicycle. If you can get effective range beyond a traditional uranium shell-based system, you could get within range to take out those defenses, then pound with traditional missile projectiles.
I can't find exact numbers, but 20mm ammunition like the Phalanx defense system uses can cost ballpark $20 per shot (The real numbers are probably different). A magazine of these is 1,500 shots, which it can consume in 20 seconds. That's ninety-thousand dollars to fire a traditional missile defense gun for 1 minute. The anti-mortar missiles planned for Israel were slated to cost 25k a pop. I can't imagine a test fire of the missile side of the Phalanx system would be any less.
I'm not in the military, but the idea of consuming power that is already being produced, rather than expensive (and fast-consumed) ammunition, is quite appealing.
This is actually being done with more purpose-built offshore ships. Russia has the first, I believe. It's both a nuclear power plant and a desalinization plant (steam and all) for regions where contiguous traditional nuclear plants are impractical.
Theoretically, catastrophic failure should lead to an icy end of the possibility of an uncontrolled reaction. Famous last words, of course.
Good breakdown. It should be pointed out, that the lasers in this case are referred to as solid state. And the carriers in question are things like the Nimitz, which are nuclear.
There may be maintenance and other consumable chemicals to take on and dispose of. But this sounds pretty much like a complete system that can keep firing pretty much as long as the supercarrier's electrical system isn't too damaged. And that's something that existing systems can't claim.
I'd be curious to see what the countermeasures to a system like this might be. Some sort of deflective chaff? Sufficient amounts of water vapor? 32kW should have a lot of penetration.
Most non-textbooks are just straight text with some careful line breaks and bad font choices. I'd argue that the digital parallel is pretty close. Of course, ebook capability should track pretty closely with the less interactive portions of HTML5, or PDF. There is no reason why it couldn't include properly positioned photographs, diagrams, font tricks, etc.
At a fundamental level, you can have a paper copy of a PDF file from a publisher, or you can have a digital copy of a PDF file from a publisher.
My fiancee's mother is a librarian. She has a shelf of classics which she carefully guards, ensuring that they stay as pristine as the day they were bought. She reads every book at least three times, and re-reads her favorites over the years.
I have a series of shelves of dirty, messed up books with folded corners, coffee stains, and highlights. There are so many good books out there, that I hardly ever get around to re-reading any of the old ones.
Both styles involve a bit of vanity. "Hey look, I love books and they're perfect." "You can see how much I love books by how lived in they are." Honestly, if used book stores were still taking used books, I'd drop most of these off with them.
What if your eReader was your phone? And Amazon let you re-download all of your books to any device? I would much rather get rid of the concept of losing any books.
Digital downloads of music will never outpace CD's, because once CD's leave the hands of the vendor they also leave the control of the vendor.
Wait, that happened.
There are some options for Youtube downloading on Chrome.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bdokagampppgbnjfdlkfpphniapiiifn
There is a road by my house that my GPS will route people 20 minutes around to avoid. The road is about 30 feet long. Even if it was backed up all of the way, it's still only one light's worth of cars.
I can't wait for the realtime data uploading from cars to GPS databases that phone-based GPS allows. Imagine not just traffic reports, but traffic predictions based upon time of day, day of week, month of year, and ambient other traffic in the area. "There is a high correlation between traffic in the area of Fenway Park and traffic on I-93. We only have 1 driver on I-93 right now, but it's probably totally backed up."
And you could flag areas where drivers don't behave as expected... for example not taking intersections that should be, or consistently driving slower than the stated limit, etc, then manually check these for errors. You could automatically tune time estimates and route selection parameters based upon the particular area / city.
The writing Tennant had to work with was also much sharper. Comparing the two lines above. Tennant had 4 sentences to work with. Matt had make it work in 8. Tennant's lines implied so much. Matt had to physically say everything, and even has a redundancy to get around. In short, Tennant was working with better material, while Matt's writers are just getting a sense for the new feel of the updated series.
As another comparison, Tennant had a climactic battle against the nightmare scenario of Daleks and Cybermen converging on the earth. Matt's single season finale is framed by Daleks, Cyberzombies, Atraxi, Silurian, Jadoons, and bunches of other alien races that just serve to dilute, rather than reinforce, the strength of the episode. In Tennant's episode, you really see the interplay between the two nightmare species. In Matt's, the wad of aliens are just serving as a big nebulous blob of boogymen.
I had some hesitation about Matt as a doctor, but I really feel like he has found the character's groove, insomuch as the writing will allow. But the writing has been thick and kludgy, better suited to The Sarah Jane Adventures than Doctor Who.
It's not going to happen, but could we get Dileep Rao?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2438307/
Most actors who get "that one amazing role" never do anything else. Typecast or not doesn't matter. The fall of the dice is against a single breakout hit translating into a stardom career.
Is it "typecasting?" Harrison Ford and John Travolta have had their share of typeroles, but have done very well overall. Sharon Stone, on the other hand, has had to prove that she's not just that Basic Instinct woman, and can actually act. Mark Hamill is firmly set in people's minds as Luke Skywalker, except for the millions who know him as the voice of the Joker. Robert Englund never got away from Freddy, but he has had a great run of it.
A lot of actors have translated a successful single role into a long and successful career. I'm sure Leonard Nimoy et / al would like to be respected as actors in their own rights and see a career bloom outside of what they did 40 years ago. But they've also traveled the world, hobnobbed with other famous people, and lived full, rich lives. Most actors just wind up working in parking lots or corporate security. Compared to the risks of being typecast, the risks of fading away into the working actors stiffs seems so much more frightening.
(spoiler alert)
They did have a great moment where the doctor comes into Amy's wedding, and refers to Rory at "Mr Pond." Rory looks at the doctor and says "I'm not Mr. Pond. That's not how it works." The doctor gives him a sad smile and says "Yeah it is." Rory looks momentarily sad and agrees. Rory as a character realizing that he's basically useless is an interesting twist, which I hope they utilize better than Mickey realizing that he's a tin dog.
(end spoilers)
I feel like they're taking the series away from the "adult" themes established by Russel T Davies (Head writer for Dr Who and creator of Queer as Folk). The team seems to be trying to recapture the feeling that they had about the doctor in the 70's and 80's when they were growing up. Also, Russel had a degree of faith in the intelligence of his audience that Steven Moffet doesn't quite have. Which is to say, Moffet seems to badger the audience over the head with "the point" or every individual plot point, where Russel tended to spend time exploring intricacies and nuances.
Smith finally felt like he was hitting his stride with the last few episodes of this season. He's suffering a bit from the loss of one of the best television writers of recent memory, and Moffat needing to learn to trust the audience. But next season had lots of promise.
Tennant is a favorite of mine. A big reason for that is just his desire to play the role... He obviously loved the doctor as a character, and that love and attention-to-detail really showed on screen. He was having the time of his life with that character, and we were having it watching him.
Seeing Eccleston bail so quickly on a character that would be a dream for many actors just broke my heart. Hearing Matt Smith is feeling the same way is going to taint the next season.
As a side note, doesn't the Doctor technically have one regeneration left after Matt? Or is it two?
To be fair, a lot of things are obvious in retrospect. It's obvious now that a round object with a shaft down the middle might be used to easily carry weight, but the wheel wasn't discovered by all cultures and has no parallel in nature. One-click... that's obvious.
There are many moments of "Oh yeah, why didn't anyone think of that?" It's not a solution to a math problem, it's a stroke of creative intuition. In retrospect, those strokes seem obvious. But without seeing someone else do it first, however, nobody else might ever have thought of it.
Warrants are used for entry and seizure of property. He didn't "own" any of the things the company was hosting for him: the hosting company had a right to terminate him as a customer on a moment's notice. And they did.
Really, the only major issue is not being informed of the accusations against him or his clients. But it sounds like the plan is to inform him shortly.
Note that the article about the shutdown is being hosted on Torrentfreak.com. That might give some clues.
They might have been advised against saying "we screwed up" by their legal department. Directly admitting a design flaw might open them up for other liabilities.
Have you ever touched a TV antenna? What did that do to the signal?
An exposed metal antenna is an obvious potential point of failure. Having multiple exposed antennas for different radiation bands, which a user might accidentally bridge, should have been tested thoroughly for this exact problem.
Balls get dropped. It happens all the time. This was not one of those problems that couldn't be forseen or tested for. This was a problem that should have been caught in testing, if not design. Someone screwed up. People screw up, it happens. But someone screwed up.
If you're in that country, rupee usage should be common enough to be assumed.
If you're far away from that country, chances are you don't have any idea what the hell that symbol is. And being a symbol, it's almost impossible to look up.
Really, this will help people on the borders of the country, or who interact with India all of the time. It's a nice shorthand for 15 R Indian.
To everyone else, it's one more confusing Kanji they will never be able to look up.
Aren't soldiers already complaining about the weight of all of the junk they have to carry? Devices that take away their mechanical energy, or reduce the temperature difference between them and the surrounding environment, seem like a good way of making things harder.
Maybe they won't have to carry all of the extra batteries, which will help. But power-generating shoes are inherently mushy and feel like running through mud, as is all of the other ways of generating power from human movement. It's not free energy.
While I don't disagree that NVIDIA needs to make this simpler, is that really a sizeable market for them? Presuming every college will want a cluster of 100 GPU's, they've still got about 10,000 students per college buying these things to game with.
I wonder what the size of the server room market for something that can't handle IF statements really would be.