Really? It was on HBO-HD a few weeks ago, but the movie was so bad I couldn't pay attention and wound up getting distracted by a book. Oh well. She's hot, but not hot enough for me to care about that piece of shit flick.
This whole Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD clusterfuck won't be resolved for me until Criterion decides to support on or the other formats. The current movie selection on both formats is pathetic. Just like with quality games driving console adoption, it's the quality movies that matter. What, I'm going to spend ~$500 so I can watch crap like _Underworld Evolution_ in High Definition? Christ, I don't want to watch that SD! (Perhaps when Kate Beckinsale rips her clothes off on camera I'll watch another one of those shitty vampire crap fests)
Yeah, right. The point is to make a size comparison, not to argue that photolithography is appropriate for burning ~4nm structures. My point is simply that if a modern 45nm chip die might be ~200mm2, that a chip comprised of ~4nm gates would still be a very macroscopic device.
You're absolutely right. It is formally 'degree Celsius' and 'Kelvin'. But - my God - every scientist I know uses those terms interchangeably. I mean, aren't you just looking for a reason to be argumentative?
Yeah, OK. But the current lithography state-of-the-art is 45nm. Assuming we're talking about atomic gates, that's somewhere around an order of magnitude shrinkage for comparison. So, for a complex device, one would still need a macroscopic cooling system - at least several mm2. Can laser cooling really do that? I thought the trap had to be much much smaller... (corrections?)
To form a Bose Einstein Condensate, the atoms must be cooled to a fraction of 0 degrees Kelvin. How could this ever be used in a practical application?
What are neurons? Independent self supporting cells, right? What are the interconnects between neurons but a highway for message passing. This highly oversimplifies the many kinds of messages that are passed, such as excitatory and inhibitory messages. But underneath the term neural network is a description which can modeled within Cellular Automata networks as well. As it turns out, these automata networks are massively parallel. Which would be a solution to the very problem our software developers now face.
A New Kind of Science. Converting a range of standard CS algorithms into Cellular Automata networks is the very solution our brains use; a combination of message passing and feedback loops. If we want our computers to scale in parallel, we might want to look at how biology has solved the problem. A lot of people laughed at Wolfram when he initially published that book. I think he yet might have the last laugh.
Well, that's good. The Wii needs more games - pronto. But I'm dubious about the long term viability of the WiiMote in comparison with a standard controller. After having tried it, I'm convinced that:
a) It does not track well. Nintendo needs to research directional control, the IR sensor bar isn't enough. b) It's a party game machine. Nintendo needs to release drunk-people's games. The kind of stuff college kids play when trashed. c) Traditional FPS and RPG video games will not work with the WiiMote.
Still a cool try. I'm not ruling the Wii out, but I want to see what Nintendo and the other game publishers do before I buy in...
My first 360 didn't last an hour. Seriously. I fully expect this unit to go tits up too, so I bought an extended warranty. I'm not happy about the 360's industrial design quality - very bad. Sony did a much better job on heat dissipation and component layout. The Wii, OTOH, doesn't seem to have any heat issues (what a surprise), and it's case design looks very good.
But the only game for the Wii that I like is Wii Sports. That's a demo game! And while I'd love to have RE4/GC, I've already got it for the PS2 and that's good enough. The Wii needs a killer app, big time.
Christmas '05 I watched the ebay lunacy over the 360, decided I'd rather have a PS3 and waited. Then the PS3 was delayed. And Blu-ray began to look like a real dud. Finally, Sony announced the price. By November of last year, as the Christmas season was heating up, I decided I wanted a Wii instead. But I couldn't find one. Anywhere! My coworker stood out in the cold for hours to buy one. By the time December had arrived, I'd finally played with a Wii and decided that it wasn't HD enough for my tastes. So I bought a 360.
And now I'm happy. The 360 does exactly what I want. And while the Wii might be cool to own, until Nintendo offers up a selection of games that use the WiiMote in new and entertaining ways, I think waiting until next x-mas before buying another console seems the smart option. JMO...
This is generally true. Good counterpoint. However, there are some types of white blood cells that do replicate. IIRC (and please correct me if I'm wrong), when a T4 cell matches the protein key of an infection agent, it will notify the nearest white blood cell of the same protein type. This will signal that white blood cell to replicate, which then mounts an attack against the infection.
This is an overly simplistic explanation, I'm sure.
Rough comparison here. Short answer: DNA is far more dense information storage than this technology. Never mind that human white blood cells also contain the machinery to both compute and replicate data stored within DNA (as well as replicating the computation machinery).
Biology still wins. But nanotechnology creeps ever closer year by year...
The funny thing is that it doesn't downrez the image to 480p, it just blanks the screen. I think both the JVC deck and the HS-20 follow the hdmi 1.0 spec. I thought the ps3 does hdmi 1.3... shouldn't this problem be solved by now?
Feh. DRM dies a proper ignoble death, not because of consumer backlash but due to it's own engineering hubris. I would have preferred a consumer revolt.
I have a JVC 5U D-VHS deck with HDMI out the back. This is connected to a Sony HD-20 digital projector via HDMI. While these units use an older HDMI spec, they also show serious handshaking problems - often in the middle of displaying content. Not only does it take seconds to handshake, but right in the middle of a movie the screen might go blank and then I'll have to yank the power plug on the VCR to renegotiate. Fortunately, with the PJ I can just switch to other inputs to clear out whatever cruft is confusing its HDMI interface.
The PJ and deck are about three years old. I assumed these handshake issues had long been dealt with. Apparently not. So... the DRM is more than just a PITA. It's plain broken.
I dunno about the colecovision, but there is still community support for the 2600 and (amazingly) the Vectrex. New games, believe it or not. I owned a colecovision back in 1982 or so. Good console, but I seem to remember playing the 2600 more often simply because it had more games. I also played lots of games on a TRS-80 model 1, as well as an original IBM XT back then. Of course the XT had superior graphics - a CGI card - in comparison to the trash 80. But that bit o trash had lots more games at that time. Good games, even. (and lets face it, the PC sucked in comparison to the Atari 800)
Ahhh, so many fine memories. Crush Crumble and Chomp let you - the gamer - become a movie monster like Godzilla, run around a city destroying stuff, and eat people to sate hunger. As a kid, I loved that game. Funny story, back in 1981 or so I was caught playing CCC on a school Apple II. The teacher, and then the principal, were mortified by the premise of the game. They contacted my parents and demanded that I never bring it back to school again.
I wonder how they would feel about Gears of War today?
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Really? It was on HBO-HD a few weeks ago, but the movie was so bad I couldn't pay attention and wound up getting distracted by a book. Oh well. She's hot, but not hot enough for me to care about that piece of shit flick.
This whole Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD clusterfuck won't be resolved for me until Criterion decides to support on or the other formats. The current movie selection on both formats is pathetic. Just like with quality games driving console adoption, it's the quality movies that matter. What, I'm going to spend ~$500 so I can watch crap like _Underworld Evolution_ in High Definition? Christ, I don't want to watch that SD! (Perhaps when Kate Beckinsale rips her clothes off on camera I'll watch another one of those shitty vampire crap fests)
My city sucks.
Yeah, right. The point is to make a size comparison, not to argue that photolithography is appropriate for burning ~4nm structures. My point is simply that if a modern 45nm chip die might be ~200mm2, that a chip comprised of ~4nm gates would still be a very macroscopic device.
You're absolutely right. It is formally 'degree Celsius' and 'Kelvin'. But - my God - every scientist I know uses those terms interchangeably. I mean, aren't you just looking for a reason to be argumentative?
Yeah, OK. But the current lithography state-of-the-art is 45nm. Assuming we're talking about atomic gates, that's somewhere around an order of magnitude shrinkage for comparison. So, for a complex device, one would still need a macroscopic cooling system - at least several mm2. Can laser cooling really do that? I thought the trap had to be much much smaller... (corrections?)
Because I am not dividing by 0, as you imply, but am referring instead to a 'fraction of a degree Kelvin above absolute zero.'
To form a Bose Einstein Condensate, the atoms must be cooled to a fraction of 0 degrees Kelvin. How could this ever be used in a practical application?
You know, most every UNIX out there will use up all available RAM for filesystem caching too. So what?
What are neurons? Independent self supporting cells, right? What are the interconnects between neurons but a highway for message passing. This highly oversimplifies the many kinds of messages that are passed, such as excitatory and inhibitory messages. But underneath the term neural network is a description which can modeled within Cellular Automata networks as well. As it turns out, these automata networks are massively parallel. Which would be a solution to the very problem our software developers now face.
A New Kind of Science. Converting a range of standard CS algorithms into Cellular Automata networks is the very solution our brains use; a combination of message passing and feedback loops. If we want our computers to scale in parallel, we might want to look at how biology has solved the problem. A lot of people laughed at Wolfram when he initially published that book. I think he yet might have the last laugh.
Mr.... *Poopypants*!?!?!?!" -Lt. Frank Drebin
Well, that's good. The Wii needs more games - pronto. But I'm dubious about the long term viability of the WiiMote in comparison with a standard controller. After having tried it, I'm convinced that:
a) It does not track well. Nintendo needs to research directional control, the IR sensor bar isn't enough.
b) It's a party game machine. Nintendo needs to release drunk-people's games. The kind of stuff college kids play when trashed.
c) Traditional FPS and RPG video games will not work with the WiiMote.
Still a cool try. I'm not ruling the Wii out, but I want to see what Nintendo and the other game publishers do before I buy in...
My first 360 didn't last an hour. Seriously. I fully expect this unit to go tits up too, so I bought an extended warranty. I'm not happy about the 360's industrial design quality - very bad. Sony did a much better job on heat dissipation and component layout. The Wii, OTOH, doesn't seem to have any heat issues (what a surprise), and it's case design looks very good.
But the only game for the Wii that I like is Wii Sports. That's a demo game! And while I'd love to have RE4/GC, I've already got it for the PS2 and that's good enough. The Wii needs a killer app, big time.
Christmas '05 I watched the ebay lunacy over the 360, decided I'd rather have a PS3 and waited. Then the PS3 was delayed. And Blu-ray began to look like a real dud. Finally, Sony announced the price. By November of last year, as the Christmas season was heating up, I decided I wanted a Wii instead. But I couldn't find one. Anywhere! My coworker stood out in the cold for hours to buy one. By the time December had arrived, I'd finally played with a Wii and decided that it wasn't HD enough for my tastes. So I bought a 360.
And now I'm happy. The 360 does exactly what I want. And while the Wii might be cool to own, until Nintendo offers up a selection of games that use the WiiMote in new and entertaining ways, I think waiting until next x-mas before buying another console seems the smart option. JMO...
This is generally true. Good counterpoint. However, there are some types of white blood cells that do replicate. IIRC (and please correct me if I'm wrong), when a T4 cell matches the protein key of an infection agent, it will notify the nearest white blood cell of the same protein type. This will signal that white blood cell to replicate, which then mounts an attack against the infection.
This is an overly simplistic explanation, I'm sure.
Rough comparison here. Short answer: DNA is far more dense information storage than this technology. Never mind that human white blood cells also contain the machinery to both compute and replicate data stored within DNA (as well as replicating the computation machinery).
Biology still wins. But nanotechnology creeps ever closer year by year...
The funny thing is that it doesn't downrez the image to 480p, it just blanks the screen. I think both the JVC deck and the HS-20 follow the hdmi 1.0 spec. I thought the ps3 does hdmi 1.3... shouldn't this problem be solved by now?
Feh. DRM dies a proper ignoble death, not because of consumer backlash but due to it's own engineering hubris. I would have preferred a consumer revolt.
lol, what?
that's just beautiful!
I have a JVC 5U D-VHS deck with HDMI out the back. This is connected to a Sony HD-20 digital projector via HDMI. While these units use an older HDMI spec, they also show serious handshaking problems - often in the middle of displaying content. Not only does it take seconds to handshake, but right in the middle of a movie the screen might go blank and then I'll have to yank the power plug on the VCR to renegotiate. Fortunately, with the PJ I can just switch to other inputs to clear out whatever cruft is confusing its HDMI interface.
The PJ and deck are about three years old. I assumed these handshake issues had long been dealt with. Apparently not. So... the DRM is more than just a PITA. It's plain broken.
Have you ever felt that sometimes people go out of their way to put down Microsoft.
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'nuff said.
I dunno about the colecovision, but there is still community support for the 2600 and (amazingly) the Vectrex. New games, believe it or not. I owned a colecovision back in 1982 or so. Good console, but I seem to remember playing the 2600 more often simply because it had more games. I also played lots of games on a TRS-80 model 1, as well as an original IBM XT back then. Of course the XT had superior graphics - a CGI card - in comparison to the trash 80. But that bit o trash had lots more games at that time. Good games, even. (and lets face it, the PC sucked in comparison to the Atari 800)
So many fond memories...
Ahhh, so many fine memories. Crush Crumble and Chomp let you - the gamer - become a movie monster like Godzilla, run around a city destroying stuff, and eat people to sate hunger. As a kid, I loved that game. Funny story, back in 1981 or so I was caught playing CCC on a school Apple II. The teacher, and then the principal, were mortified by the premise of the game. They contacted my parents and demanded that I never bring it back to school again.
I wonder how they would feel about Gears of War today?
Can you shoot a commercial grade movie? He can. How much that skill is worth? Well... apparently, that's in dispute.
"Well, if a job is created elsewhere that could have been created in the US, isn't that a job lost?"
No... No: This one goes up to eleven.