You can have most of the versatility of organics at the same time as having the specialized advantages from technology. Some people would prefer specialized hardware for certain tasks. For specialization, tech almost always wins over organics.
It's pretty similar. They take vibrations and convert them to a wiggly line, then they split that wiggly line into equal slices lasting one 44100th of a second, and gives each slice a value between 0 and 65535. Then they convert those values into voltages to drive the electromagnet in a speaker, which gets you back to the vibrations.
And for the record, almost all turntables do the same thing internally, unless they're the kind with the big "horn" which substitutes for a speaker.
It depends on the game. World of Warcraft or a RTS/Strategy game might be tolerable. Any first-person-shooter will not be. When it takes 500ms for you to see what just happened and then for your commands to register... oops, you're dead.
Latency on dialup is generally around 150-300ms. Latency on Satellite is limited by the speed of light and starts at an absolute, physical limit of 240ms, assuming that the radio signal is actually travelling at the speed of light (it isn't), no retransmissions need to take place (they will), the satellite isn't processing or juggling your data stream at all (it is), the satellite isn't oversubscribed (it is), and the game server you're connected to is directly connected to the other end of the satellite downlink (it isn't).
Expect latency of 400ms or more, sometimes much more. And for WoW, note the Latency the game tells you. Much of that is on the server end. When WoW's lagging and you have a latency of 500ms or more in-game, probably less than 100ms of that is due to your current broadband connection. So you can take the remaining 400ms and add that to your satellite latency as well. Now you're looking at almost 1 second before you can react to what's happening in the game.
Might I suggest trashing the dish and looking for terrestrial radio internet instead? Like WiMAX or EV-DO. Good luck.
Oh, and don't forget the chance that the hard drives end up damaging the MRI too. MRIs are designed to image, not to fling ferrous things around the room.
MRIs are not cheap. They are in fact so expensive, that it's not even cheap to get time to use one.
Funny how drastically those numbers change when you change the timeframe. Why don't you go further back and look at the last 2000 years of Christian violence compared to the last 2000 years of Muslim violence. Do the crusades mean anything to you? Or the Roman legions? The Muslims have *no* monopoly on extremism or sectarian violence.
And if you think that violence perpetrated thousands of years ago is too old for them to still have any right to complain about it, then surely you would agree that Israel is not entitled to come back and lay claim to the supposed "holy land" because it was theirs 2000 years ago either?
The situation is a fuckton more complex than you think it is. The holy wars are still going on right under your nose.
because a dvd/cd you can leave it in the case for three years and if it hasn't been used then it will work fine first time
I have filled garbage cans with evidence to the contrary. Well, maybe not after three years, but after six you're starting to get into very dangerous territory.
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The concept of a single target that Just Works on all known OSs
I think you vastly underestimate the number of known operating systems.
Welcome to the club. I've been a member since Creative used their patent on shadow volume rendering (ironically known as "Carmack's Reverse") to blackmail id Software into supporting EAX.
Although that was hardly the first scumbag thing they did. Their douchery goes back to the Aureal3D days and beyond. They've just been getting worse and worse.
Besides, Turtle Beach makes better, more featureful cards anyway. The Montego DDL is in a class literally by itself, with realtime Dolby Digital 5.1 encoding of 3D positional audio. Not just passthrough of AC3 streams from DVDs, the way Creative's cards do it. Its only competition was a hard-to-find version of the nForce2 southbridge only included on a few motherboards and never available as a PCI card. And while their drivers are not much better than Creative's, their support is superb. Take a look at their support page for the Montego DDL. Note in particular the FAQ entries where they respond to real, actual questions from real, actual people, with real, actual answers! And then they post them on the website for everyone's benefit! So unheard of these days.
I could gush more about Turtle Beach, but suffice it to say, I love my Montego DDL.
I'm curious. What were you expecting when you went to see "Snakes on a Plane"?
The movie delivered exactly what it promised. Namely, it takes place on a plane, and there are lots and lots of poisonous, angry snakes. It's a cheesy B-movie with Samuel L. Jackson. If you were expecting Shakespeare, I don't know who deluded you into thinking that.
What exactly does the word "moon" mean to you, if not the smaller planetary bodies in a multi-body graviationally co-orbital system? It's a more specific word for the same thing.
Take the number of vehicles in the field (A) multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B) then multiply the result by the average out of court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of the recall, we don't do one.
Yes, movies are cute and all, but let's not apply them to reality, okay? That's the logic Ford used when they decided to sell the Pinto rather than redesign it's gas tank. It's used as a case study for Business Ethics courses. It's not done that way normally for several reasons, not the least of which being what actually happened to Ford after their clever scheme was discovered.
Millions of dollars in lawsuits were filed and won against the automaker, including the largest personal injury judgment ever. And in the 1979 landmark case State of Indiana v. Ford Motor Co., Ford notoriously became the first American corporation ever indicted or prosecuted on criminal homicide charges. Though Ford was acquitted of reckless homicide in March 1980, the Pinto's reputation had plummeted disastrously; Ford ceased production of the car five months after the trial. -- from here
Their estimate of "average out of court settlement" turned out to be several orders of magnitude too low, and it destroyed their reputation too. Hardly a good deal, after all.
Well, yes, it does, if you're going to call it the largest object in the universe. There are already many things that are thousands or millions of light years across. 200 light years just isn't terribly impressive.
I think you are talking about two different things. He is talking about people who morally object to the orders because they believe the orders to be evil. You seem to be talking about people who are afraid they will die and refuse on that basis.
Well, compared to Ventrillo, it has a missing-in-action official Mac client, for one thing. I don't know if I'd consider that a feature, though.
Also TeamSpeak is not nearly as popular as Ventrillo in World of Warcraft, or at least it wasn't when I played. Probably because of the Mac issue. A good number of people play WoW on Mac, you'd be surprised.
You can express a 2x4 in metric, but it will be some odd fractional measurement.
So what. Pick a new labelling system. We already do it for all kinds of things, from pencils and paper to CPUs. You want a delivery of some L-8 lumber cut 4 meters long to make some 46cm floor joists? Why not? Other science and engineering professions seem to get by just fine.
No it isn't. POSIX is a superset of UNIX. UNIX meets the requirements of POSIX, not the other way around. For that matter, Windows NT conforms to POSIX too. Does that mean Windows NT is a UNIX? I don't think so.
or an Asus or Shuttle enclosure/board if the Mac Mini for the PC equivalent
You may be right for the other Macs, but there is no useful comparison between a Shuttle PC and a Mac Mini. You can fit almost 2 and a half Mac Minis into the size of the smallest Shuttle PC I could find (X100). That's a custom, pre-built one. If you were going to buy a case and build your own, I'm pretty sure you'd be limited to the larger "standard" ShuttlePC cases, into which you could fit 8 or more Mac Minis.
Calculation of margin doesn't really work if you're not getting the same thing.
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You can have most of the versatility of organics at the same time as having the specialized advantages from technology. Some people would prefer specialized hardware for certain tasks. For specialization, tech almost always wins over organics.
Wow. I think you're reading too much into it.
It's a game. It's intended to be fun. Nothing more.
Some days, I am the anti-social asshole.
Other days, I am most certainly the office lazyass.
So these aren't always fixed roles, but they sure are true on a day-to-day basis.
by the way, guess which I am today! *cough*
It's pretty similar. They take vibrations and convert them to a wiggly line, then they split that wiggly line into equal slices lasting one 44100th of a second, and gives each slice a value between 0 and 65535. Then they convert those values into voltages to drive the electromagnet in a speaker, which gets you back to the vibrations.
And for the record, almost all turntables do the same thing internally, unless they're the kind with the big "horn" which substitutes for a speaker.
It depends on the game. World of Warcraft or a RTS/Strategy game might be tolerable. Any first-person-shooter will not be. When it takes 500ms for you to see what just happened and then for your commands to register... oops, you're dead.
Latency on dialup is generally around 150-300ms. Latency on Satellite is limited by the speed of light and starts at an absolute, physical limit of 240ms, assuming that the radio signal is actually travelling at the speed of light (it isn't), no retransmissions need to take place (they will), the satellite isn't processing or juggling your data stream at all (it is), the satellite isn't oversubscribed (it is), and the game server you're connected to is directly connected to the other end of the satellite downlink (it isn't).
Expect latency of 400ms or more, sometimes much more. And for WoW, note the Latency the game tells you. Much of that is on the server end. When WoW's lagging and you have a latency of 500ms or more in-game, probably less than 100ms of that is due to your current broadband connection. So you can take the remaining 400ms and add that to your satellite latency as well. Now you're looking at almost 1 second before you can react to what's happening in the game.
Might I suggest trashing the dish and looking for terrestrial radio internet instead? Like WiMAX or EV-DO. Good luck.
Oh, and don't forget the chance that the hard drives end up damaging the MRI too. MRIs are designed to image, not to fling ferrous things around the room.
MRIs are not cheap. They are in fact so expensive, that it's not even cheap to get time to use one.
Funny how drastically those numbers change when you change the timeframe. Why don't you go further back and look at the last 2000 years of Christian violence compared to the last 2000 years of Muslim violence. Do the crusades mean anything to you? Or the Roman legions? The Muslims have *no* monopoly on extremism or sectarian violence.
And if you think that violence perpetrated thousands of years ago is too old for them to still have any right to complain about it, then surely you would agree that Israel is not entitled to come back and lay claim to the supposed "holy land" because it was theirs 2000 years ago either?
The situation is a fuckton more complex than you think it is. The holy wars are still going on right under your nose.
Funny, I think that the Russians were the first to impact a probe into the Moon! Luna 2.
because a dvd/cd you can leave it in the case for three years and if it hasn't been used then it will work fine first time
I have filled garbage cans with evidence to the contrary. Well, maybe not after three years, but after six you're starting to get into very dangerous territory.
The concept of a single target that Just Works on all known OSs
I think you vastly underestimate the number of known operating systems.
Welcome to the club. I've been a member since Creative used their patent on shadow volume rendering (ironically known as "Carmack's Reverse") to blackmail id Software into supporting EAX.
Although that was hardly the first scumbag thing they did. Their douchery goes back to the Aureal3D days and beyond. They've just been getting worse and worse.
Besides, Turtle Beach makes better, more featureful cards anyway. The Montego DDL is in a class literally by itself, with realtime Dolby Digital 5.1 encoding of 3D positional audio. Not just passthrough of AC3 streams from DVDs, the way Creative's cards do it. Its only competition was a hard-to-find version of the nForce2 southbridge only included on a few motherboards and never available as a PCI card. And while their drivers are not much better than Creative's, their support is superb. Take a look at their support page for the Montego DDL. Note in particular the FAQ entries where they respond to real, actual questions from real, actual people, with real, actual answers! And then they post them on the website for everyone's benefit! So unheard of these days.
I could gush more about Turtle Beach, but suffice it to say, I love my Montego DDL.
I'm curious. What were you expecting when you went to see "Snakes on a Plane"?
The movie delivered exactly what it promised. Namely, it takes place on a plane, and there are lots and lots of poisonous, angry snakes. It's a cheesy B-movie with Samuel L. Jackson. If you were expecting Shakespeare, I don't know who deluded you into thinking that.
What exactly does the word "moon" mean to you, if not the smaller planetary bodies in a multi-body graviationally co-orbital system? It's a more specific word for the same thing.
Take the number of vehicles in the field (A) multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B) then multiply the result by the average out of court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of the recall, we don't do one.
Yes, movies are cute and all, but let's not apply them to reality, okay? That's the logic Ford used when they decided to sell the Pinto rather than redesign it's gas tank. It's used as a case study for Business Ethics courses. It's not done that way normally for several reasons, not the least of which being what actually happened to Ford after their clever scheme was discovered.
Millions of dollars in lawsuits were filed and won against the automaker, including the largest personal injury judgment ever. And in the 1979 landmark case State of Indiana v. Ford Motor Co., Ford notoriously became the first American corporation ever indicted or prosecuted on criminal homicide charges. Though Ford was acquitted of reckless homicide in March 1980, the Pinto's reputation had plummeted disastrously; Ford ceased production of the car five months after the trial. -- from here
Their estimate of "average out of court settlement" turned out to be several orders of magnitude too low, and it destroyed their reputation too. Hardly a good deal, after all.
Actually I believe The English Language was released under an Apache-style licence.
Well, yes, it does, if you're going to call it the largest object in the universe. There are already many things that are thousands or millions of light years across. 200 light years just isn't terribly impressive.
I think you are talking about two different things. He is talking about people who morally object to the orders because they believe the orders to be evil. You seem to be talking about people who are afraid they will die and refuse on that basis.
Well, compared to Ventrillo, it has a missing-in-action official Mac client, for one thing. I don't know if I'd consider that a feature, though.
Also TeamSpeak is not nearly as popular as Ventrillo in World of Warcraft, or at least it wasn't when I played. Probably because of the Mac issue. A good number of people play WoW on Mac, you'd be surprised.
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Sorry, I misunderstood your tone. Google suggests Affordable Solar among others.
You can express a 2x4 in metric, but it will be some odd fractional measurement.
So what. Pick a new labelling system. We already do it for all kinds of things, from pencils and paper to CPUs. You want a delivery of some L-8 lumber cut 4 meters long to make some 46cm floor joists? Why not? Other science and engineering professions seem to get by just fine.
That's a 15W panel, not 120W. Nice try, though.
successful company I founded two years ago (second largest in the country)
Ah, so you live on Sealand?
No it isn't. POSIX is a superset of UNIX. UNIX meets the requirements of POSIX, not the other way around. For that matter, Windows NT conforms to POSIX too. Does that mean Windows NT is a UNIX? I don't think so.
or an Asus or Shuttle enclosure/board if the Mac Mini for the PC equivalent
You may be right for the other Macs, but there is no useful comparison between a Shuttle PC and a Mac Mini. You can fit almost 2 and a half Mac Minis into the size of the smallest Shuttle PC I could find (X100). That's a custom, pre-built one. If you were going to buy a case and build your own, I'm pretty sure you'd be limited to the larger "standard" ShuttlePC cases, into which you could fit 8 or more Mac Minis.
Calculation of margin doesn't really work if you're not getting the same thing.