Depending on how they do it, a major new feature such as religion may not add too much to the complexity of the game. If you've played SimCity3, you'll know what I mean. They added garbage collection in addition to the earlier electrical and water distribution mechanisms, and it was something that was easily learned and handled. Civ4 may handle it equally nicely.
re CATIA: You're thinking of the 7E7. The 7E7 won't have a prototype because everything has been designed and tested to perfection in CATIA. The 777 used CATIA, but not for absolutely everything.
I know what you say is a very common criticism of Apple hardware, but at least consider whether or not it's true, will you?
Take the Apple PowerBook line as an example. For similar price, performance, volume, weight, battery life, durability, longitivity and overall construction, you won't find a better deal out there. Sure, it's more expensive than the competition, but that's because the PowerBook line IS better than the competition.
To all the trolls out there who won't look past the price tag: Consider that Apple hardware is generally more sophisticated and useful in the long run.
Okay, not bad, but I'll offer two cents: I think there's something inherently wrong with writing "Designed for use with Firefox" on a web page. Maybe "Designed with Web standards in mind", but the whole idea about Firefox is that it properly supports (most) Web standards. Suggesting that a website is designed for a particular browser implies that it may or may not work on other standards-compliant browsers, which in turn hurts Web standards.
You raise a valid point. It would be convenient on the odd occasion if OSX could hibernate, but even so, its sleep function is orders of magnitude more responsive than Windows' sleep (or hibernate, after it has actually loaded everything). With Windows, there's a very noticeable few-second delay between everything looking usable and actually being usable. OSX doesn't suffer from this; it truly is instant-on.
That said, I wouldn't say no to hibernation support in a future OSX release.
They're not about to hit 200kph on campus (let alone faster speeds), so I wouldn't be too concerned about noise there. Lots of the "strange" noise maglevs make is just pushing wind out of the way very quickly.
Question for you: I'm assuming you're in the USA. Does your cell phone contract actually specify which networks you can use?
I ask because up here in the Great White North, not a single company distinguishes between the networks. If your phone supports the networks offered, you can use them all.
So how does it work there?
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The thing is, Google's servers are many orders of magnitude more powerful than your PC. It can calculate more search algorithms in a millisecond than your (or my) PC can compute in seconds. Seconds mean a lot when you're doing something like this. Very few people have the patience to wait and wait and wait, even if yes, it's fast.
(This may incite or already be part of a font flame war, but...)
I agree with you about the "suffy serifed face" attribute of Times New Roman. I've always preferred Garamond myself. I find it very pleasant to read, especially in large volumes.
Probably the biggest problem is this (which is why I'm skeptical the article is true): The G5 (PPC970) was designed to benefit the most from a dual-processor configuration.
A three-processor PPC970 doesn't have the same advantages... In fact, it likely provides very little gain, proportionately to the second. The number "3" also is quite un-computer-engineering-ish, because processor configurations almost always rely on powers of two.
Base-2 arithmetic as at the core of a CPU; the entire mathematical scheme is binary. Other schemes have been tried, but none has been developed that is easier to design and, importantly, very fast. Since binary voltage levels are the easiest to design and discern (generally on/off, or positive/negative), there hardly even exists a feasible alternative.
All the adders and subtractors, as well as the integer and floating-point multipliers and dividers, are base-2. That's because 2's complement and modulo-2 arithmetic are easy. Very easy. And fast.
Not only that, but for efficiency reasons the registers and cache memories within a CPU are addressed with base-2 logic. So are the bus channels the CPU uses. Pretty much all communication within a computer relies in one way or another on base-2, and most certainly on binary itself (for the raw physical data).
Hope this helps. If you have any other questions, I'd be happy to answer.
Are we so stuck with the legacy of powers of two that we can't change things now?
Well... um, yes, we are. The whole internals of your computer and mine and most others on the planet are mired in base-2 logic and arithmetic. Sorry to disappoint you. =)
I'm by no means an expert on Swedish law, but there are so many technicalities with what you're proposing that it isn't feasible for any country, save for the smallest of them (ie. Luxembourg).
The main issue is distance. If an ISP moves, their lines have to move. It may become a long-distance call just to connect to them. DSL lines need a central switching station within no more than 6km generally, and countries are a LOT bigger than that. Just from a technical logistical point of view, this isn't at all possible.
There's also the issue of doing business from other countries. It's trickier thanks to different taxation and business laws, in spite of the European Union's relative ease of business within member countries.
The last point I could make is that ISPs don't really have as much to do with serving web pages as web hosts; it's a different class altogether. Yes, they could move, but realistically it's far easier to just put a clause that says "please accept, and here's why you have to", as someone else in this thread commented.
That also doesn't address the issue that moving any Swedish business that has a web site isn't at all possible. It won't happen. People will adadpt, and pretty easily too. This law isn't *that* bad--some sites make genuine use of cookies, and they'll have no trouble explaining the concept to visitors.
The catch here is that if their servers get pummeled offline every time they boot back up, it might also occur to them that they rather dislike being unable to market and/or sell their products. They'll also (hopefully) get complaints from their ISP if traffic on the network gets bogged down. So, realistically, I doubt they'd be too impressed by 500 million hits if those hits tear their server to shreds. =)
Would somebody please start a new fully independant ISP (thats Independant Service Provider) here sometime? You will make a fortune!!!
There are plenty of small, good ISPs throughout the country, especially in the bigger cities. Lots of them offer extra features too, such as static IP and unlimited bandwidth. For example, I use a small company called CUIC, and I get unlimited bandwidth and a static IP for less than a standard Bell service (and MUCH better customer service). There are plenty of others out there.
I highly recommend you check out CanadianISP for a very thorough listing of alternative ISPs. They're kind of a watchdog site, and they include complete pricing listings and user satisfaction ratings; very informative.
heh... That it did... But it doesn't change the fact that Jimmy Carter and Linus Torvals are in entirely different leagues when it comes to world issues.
Well, since you don't know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize, I highly recommend looking it up. Here it is, straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
Since Torvals (and Linux) has done nothing to prevent wars and such, I can't imagine why he would ever be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize, despite the usefulness of his creation. Linux doesn't really qualify as something that "confers great benefit to mankind" (paraphrasing).
Take a look through the list of Laureates for this Prize. You'll notice that things like terminating apartheid, promoting peace between warring nations and advocating human rights, get people nominated for this Prize. It's quite an interesting read. Please learn about it.
If I hear one more person whinge about XML's 'bloat' I think someone's gettin a slappin
Besides, XML doesn't really have any additional bloat over the standard Word file format anyway. Ever looked at how much stuff comprises a 10.5k *blank* document?
Although I can't see how you could build one across the Atlantic.
Precisely. That was what I was getting at, though I guess not clearly enough. Maglev trains require a huge infrastructure. Most designs travel in enormous, power-hungry basins (that's a crude description) that would be far too cumbersome for such a long network. Here's an article that goes in to a nice degree of detail about how Maglevs work.
This doesn't address the additional detail that as soon as you put a train across the Atlantic then ships won't be able to travel from one side to the other, since Maglev trains couldn't possibly operate with cantilever bridges. The possibilities for accidental damage and destruction by ships are endless.
You do realise you'd have to build the *infrastructure* to support that, don't you? Building such a power-hungry infrastructure on pillars that are kilometres tall (the Atlantic isn't shallow) isn't even close to feasible. What you're suggesting sounds more like a hovercraft, but those are *slow*.
Well, chances are most people would look like "hammered crap" if they'd crawled out of the burned wreckage of a building... Guess we'll have to wait for the official press release on this one.
My university does what you suggest (have exclusive non-MS labs), and unfortunately it isn't the stellar success story one might hope to hear. Most students don't even know the non-MS labs are there, and so it's mainly a small bunch of groupies who use them. Sure, that gives an elite bunch their own private lab, but it defeats the purpose of broadening the OS/software base.
They would have received a discount for the bulk purchase, naturally. I don't know precisely what the State of Maine was told at time of purchase, but chances are they got a better deal than any individual consumer could have. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple told them of the planned upgrade and gave them pricing to correspond since delivery on such a large order can't be done overnight. Just my $0.02.
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Depending on how they do it, a major new feature such as religion may not add too much to the complexity of the game. If you've played SimCity3, you'll know what I mean. They added garbage collection in addition to the earlier electrical and water distribution mechanisms, and it was something that was easily learned and handled. Civ4 may handle it equally nicely.
re CATIA: You're thinking of the 7E7. The 7E7 won't have a prototype because everything has been designed and tested to perfection in CATIA. The 777 used CATIA, but not for absolutely everything.
Hint: Planes can fly. *All* large aircraft are flown to their buyers.
I know what you say is a very common criticism of Apple hardware, but at least consider whether or not it's true, will you?
Take the Apple PowerBook line as an example. For similar price, performance, volume, weight, battery life, durability, longitivity and overall construction, you won't find a better deal out there. Sure, it's more expensive than the competition, but that's because the PowerBook line IS better than the competition.
To all the trolls out there who won't look past the price tag: Consider that Apple hardware is generally more sophisticated and useful in the long run.
Okay, not bad, but I'll offer two cents: I think there's something inherently wrong with writing "Designed for use with Firefox" on a web page. Maybe "Designed with Web standards in mind", but the whole idea about Firefox is that it properly supports (most) Web standards. Suggesting that a website is designed for a particular browser implies that it may or may not work on other standards-compliant browsers, which in turn hurts Web standards.
You raise a valid point. It would be convenient on the odd occasion if OSX could hibernate, but even so, its sleep function is orders of magnitude more responsive than Windows' sleep (or hibernate, after it has actually loaded everything). With Windows, there's a very noticeable few-second delay between everything looking usable and actually being usable. OSX doesn't suffer from this; it truly is instant-on.
That said, I wouldn't say no to hibernation support in a future OSX release.
They're not about to hit 200kph on campus (let alone faster speeds), so I wouldn't be too concerned about noise there. Lots of the "strange" noise maglevs make is just pushing wind out of the way very quickly.
Question for you: I'm assuming you're in the USA. Does your cell phone contract actually specify which networks you can use?
I ask because up here in the Great White North, not a single company distinguishes between the networks. If your phone supports the networks offered, you can use them all.
So how does it work there?
The thing is, Google's servers are many orders of magnitude more powerful than your PC. It can calculate more search algorithms in a millisecond than your (or my) PC can compute in seconds. Seconds mean a lot when you're doing something like this. Very few people have the patience to wait and wait and wait, even if yes, it's fast.
(This may incite or already be part of a font flame war, but...)
I agree with you about the "suffy serifed face" attribute of Times New Roman. I've always preferred Garamond myself. I find it very pleasant to read, especially in large volumes.
Probably the biggest problem is this (which is why I'm skeptical the article is true): The G5 (PPC970) was designed to benefit the most from a dual-processor configuration. A three-processor PPC970 doesn't have the same advantages... In fact, it likely provides very little gain, proportionately to the second. The number "3" also is quite un-computer-engineering-ish, because processor configurations almost always rely on powers of two.
Base-2 arithmetic as at the core of a CPU; the entire mathematical scheme is binary. Other schemes have been tried, but none has been developed that is easier to design and, importantly, very fast. Since binary voltage levels are the easiest to design and discern (generally on/off, or positive/negative), there hardly even exists a feasible alternative.
All the adders and subtractors, as well as the integer and floating-point multipliers and dividers, are base-2. That's because 2's complement and modulo-2 arithmetic are easy. Very easy. And fast.
Not only that, but for efficiency reasons the registers and cache memories within a CPU are addressed with base-2 logic. So are the bus channels the CPU uses. Pretty much all communication within a computer relies in one way or another on base-2, and most certainly on binary itself (for the raw physical data).
Hope this helps. If you have any other questions, I'd be happy to answer.
Well... um, yes, we are. The whole internals of your computer and mine and most others on the planet are mired in base-2 logic and arithmetic. Sorry to disappoint you. =)
I'm by no means an expert on Swedish law, but there are so many technicalities with what you're proposing that it isn't feasible for any country, save for the smallest of them (ie. Luxembourg).
The main issue is distance. If an ISP moves, their lines have to move. It may become a long-distance call just to connect to them. DSL lines need a central switching station within no more than 6km generally, and countries are a LOT bigger than that. Just from a technical logistical point of view, this isn't at all possible.
There's also the issue of doing business from other countries. It's trickier thanks to different taxation and business laws, in spite of the European Union's relative ease of business within member countries.
The last point I could make is that ISPs don't really have as much to do with serving web pages as web hosts; it's a different class altogether. Yes, they could move, but realistically it's far easier to just put a clause that says "please accept, and here's why you have to", as someone else in this thread commented.
That also doesn't address the issue that moving any Swedish business that has a web site isn't at all possible. It won't happen. People will adadpt, and pretty easily too. This law isn't *that* bad--some sites make genuine use of cookies, and they'll have no trouble explaining the concept to visitors.
The catch here is that if their servers get pummeled offline every time they boot back up, it might also occur to them that they rather dislike being unable to market and/or sell their products. They'll also (hopefully) get complaints from their ISP if traffic on the network gets bogged down. So, realistically, I doubt they'd be too impressed by 500 million hits if those hits tear their server to shreds. =)
That's a good point... Sounds like entrapment when you put it that way. That's grounds for immediate dismissal of a case IF true. Nice point.
Would somebody please start a new fully independant ISP (thats Independant Service Provider) here sometime? You will make a fortune!!!
There are plenty of small, good ISPs throughout the country, especially in the bigger cities. Lots of them offer extra features too, such as static IP and unlimited bandwidth. For example, I use a small company called CUIC, and I get unlimited bandwidth and a static IP for less than a standard Bell service (and MUCH better customer service). There are plenty of others out there.
I highly recommend you check out CanadianISP for a very thorough listing of alternative ISPs. They're kind of a watchdog site, and they include complete pricing listings and user satisfaction ratings; very informative.
Worth taking a look. Good luck!
heh... That it did... But it doesn't change the fact that Jimmy Carter and Linus Torvals are in entirely different leagues when it comes to world issues.
Well, since you don't know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize, I highly recommend looking it up. Here it is, straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
Since Torvals (and Linux) has done nothing to prevent wars and such, I can't imagine why he would ever be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize, despite the usefulness of his creation. Linux doesn't really qualify as something that "confers great benefit to mankind" (paraphrasing).
Take a look through the list of Laureates for this Prize. You'll notice that things like terminating apartheid, promoting peace between warring nations and advocating human rights, get people nominated for this Prize. It's quite an interesting read. Please learn about it.
If I hear one more person whinge about XML's 'bloat' I think someone's gettin a slappin
Besides, XML doesn't really have any additional bloat over the standard Word file format anyway. Ever looked at how much stuff comprises a 10.5k *blank* document?
Although I can't see how you could build one across the Atlantic.
Precisely. That was what I was getting at, though I guess not clearly enough. Maglev trains require a huge infrastructure. Most designs travel in enormous, power-hungry basins (that's a crude description) that would be far too cumbersome for such a long network. Here's an article that goes in to a nice degree of detail about how Maglevs work.
This doesn't address the additional detail that as soon as you put a train across the Atlantic then ships won't be able to travel from one side to the other, since Maglev trains couldn't possibly operate with cantilever bridges. The possibilities for accidental damage and destruction by ships are endless.
You do realise you'd have to build the *infrastructure* to support that, don't you? Building such a power-hungry infrastructure on pillars that are kilometres tall (the Atlantic isn't shallow) isn't even close to feasible. What you're suggesting sounds more like a hovercraft, but those are *slow*.
Well, chances are most people would look like "hammered crap" if they'd crawled out of the burned wreckage of a building... Guess we'll have to wait for the official press release on this one.
My university does what you suggest (have exclusive non-MS labs), and unfortunately it isn't the stellar success story one might hope to hear. Most students don't even know the non-MS labs are there, and so it's mainly a small bunch of groupies who use them. Sure, that gives an elite bunch their own private lab, but it defeats the purpose of broadening the OS/software base.
They would have received a discount for the bulk purchase, naturally. I don't know precisely what the State of Maine was told at time of purchase, but chances are they got a better deal than any individual consumer could have. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple told them of the planned upgrade and gave them pricing to correspond since delivery on such a large order can't be done overnight. Just my $0.02.