The other is that Han was just boasting nonsense deliberately to try to impress Luke and Obi-Wan to see if they were suckers. Had they been impressed, had would have charged them more.
But if they recognized the BS, they would have avoided him as a pilot who didn't know WTF he was doing.
Sony's 2TFlops number for the PS3 includes the NVidia graphics chip, which has an insanely high FLOPS count but isn't really useful for general-purpose computation.
No non-techie installs their own OS. Either it comes preconfigured with the machine (Windows, OSX) or they get a techie friend to do it (Windows/OSX upgrades, Linux). Either way, the difficuluty of configuring dmix isn't really relevant. What matters is the ease with which someone can actually use the computer when it's set up.
For that, I think that Linux can easily meet the needs of basic web browsing, word processing, spreadsheet use, and media playing, which is all that many of computers are used for. If you're a set-in-your-ways Windows power user, need to run specialized apps or view ActiveX-based web pages, or want to play games, then Linux probably won't work for you. Then again, neither will OSX.
Yeah, but probably binned differently. So the cards on which all sixteen pipes work are thrown in the Ultra bin and sold as such, while those where the extra pipes show problems have them deactivated and are sold as vanilla 6800s.
All FLOPs are not created equal. I'm not gonna pretend to really know what I'm talking about here, but as I understand it most of the 2 teraflop figure comes from the video card, which is extremely fast at doing a very limited set of operations on certain formats of data. This isn't a general purpose supercomputer, but it does what it does quite fast. Also, I'm pretty sure that IBM's $500000 general-purpose supercomputers can do better than 40 gigaflops.
Interesting maybe, but stupid. The PPCs in the 360 aren't meant for graphics processing; that's why it's got a monster ATI video card. Even a 3Ghz PPC would probably not be much better at graphics than an old Voodoo3 or TNT, because it has to render everything in software.
Companies set their prices based on what they will give them the highest profit. In order for NVidia to profit by selling $1000 video cards, someone has to buy them.
You haven't bought any music. Anyone who thinks that the record companies would let you buy thousands of CDs for $5 is an idiot. You're very clearly subscribing to the music. When you stop paying for your cable subscription, can no longer watch cable TV. When you stop paying your Yahoo music subscription, you can no longer listen to Yahoo music. It makes perfect sense to me.
It was Senator Jim Jeffords, in 2001. He didn't switch specifically to keep the Republicans from having a majority (although that was one effect); he just decided that he personally could no longer agree with the direction of the Republican party. He's still in office, and quite popular in Vermont, although he's decided not to run again in 2006.
As it stands now, you can use Hymn and get perfect DRM-less copies of your iTunes purchases. Offering lossless audio wouldn't change anything, except giving both the DRMed and un-DRMed versions better quality.
Because the Airport Express you were talking about doesn't decode video or audio, it just relays them.
Current Airport Expresses already decode audio, which is streamed to them in Apple Lossless format. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to add dedicated MPEG4 video decoding hardware, which is getting pretty cheap these days.
Before anyone gets confused, I just want to point out that the Accord hybrid is not supposed to be super-efficient like the Prius. It's the top-of-the-line Accord, and the hybrid power is mostly used to increase performance while retaining similar fuel economy to the slower models. It's quite zippy; IIRC it has better 0-60 times than a V6 Mustang.
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So there's no cord, but you're required to keep it within 2 inches of a corded mousepad. What's the point of this again?
But if they recognized the BS, they would have avoided him as a pilot who didn't know WTF he was doing.
Humans can't live forever on fish, and in many locations it'd be hard to find enough edible fish to feed the entire crew.
Sony's 2TFlops number for the PS3 includes the NVidia graphics chip, which has an insanely high FLOPS count but isn't really useful for general-purpose computation.
Before anyone mods this up further, I should point out that RotS isn't even on the list, much less #1.
That must be a damn good hack, if they're able to feed CNN fake quotes from US government officials talking about the shutdown.
For that, I think that Linux can easily meet the needs of basic web browsing, word processing, spreadsheet use, and media playing, which is all that many of computers are used for. If you're a set-in-your-ways Windows power user, need to run specialized apps or view ActiveX-based web pages, or want to play games, then Linux probably won't work for you. Then again, neither will OSX.
Yeah, but probably binned differently. So the cards on which all sixteen pipes work are thrown in the Ultra bin and sold as such, while those where the extra pipes show problems have them deactivated and are sold as vanilla 6800s.
All FLOPs are not created equal. I'm not gonna pretend to really know what I'm talking about here, but as I understand it most of the 2 teraflop figure comes from the video card, which is extremely fast at doing a very limited set of operations on certain formats of data. This isn't a general purpose supercomputer, but it does what it does quite fast. Also, I'm pretty sure that IBM's $500000 general-purpose supercomputers can do better than 40 gigaflops.
Interesting maybe, but stupid. The PPCs in the 360 aren't meant for graphics processing; that's why it's got a monster ATI video card. Even a 3Ghz PPC would probably not be much better at graphics than an old Voodoo3 or TNT, because it has to render everything in software.
I would say that math is the grounding of science, not vice versa.
Wow, did you really just claim that people aren't genetically disposed to be black?
Companies set their prices based on what they will give them the highest profit. In order for NVidia to profit by selling $1000 video cards, someone has to buy them.
You haven't bought any music. Anyone who thinks that the record companies would let you buy thousands of CDs for $5 is an idiot. You're very clearly subscribing to the music. When you stop paying for your cable subscription, can no longer watch cable TV. When you stop paying your Yahoo music subscription, you can no longer listen to Yahoo music. It makes perfect sense to me.
It was Senator Jim Jeffords, in 2001. He didn't switch specifically to keep the Republicans from having a majority (although that was one effect); he just decided that he personally could no longer agree with the direction of the Republican party. He's still in office, and quite popular in Vermont, although he's decided not to run again in 2006.
As it stands now, you can use Hymn and get perfect DRM-less copies of your iTunes purchases. Offering lossless audio wouldn't change anything, except giving both the DRMed and un-DRMed versions better quality.
Current Airport Expresses already decode audio, which is streamed to them in Apple Lossless format. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to add dedicated MPEG4 video decoding hardware, which is getting pretty cheap these days.
It's better than 90-95% of cars on the road. It's not hard to reach, but it's also not common in a family sedan.
Before anyone gets confused, I just want to point out that the Accord hybrid is not supposed to be super-efficient like the Prius. It's the top-of-the-line Accord, and the hybrid power is mostly used to increase performance while retaining similar fuel economy to the slower models. It's quite zippy; IIRC it has better 0-60 times than a V6 Mustang.
There are plenty of other good spam blocking solutions, and GMail has a lot going for it besides its filtering
Um, no, it wouldn't. Microsoft is singular, so "MS isn't" is correct.
You're talking about the controller; the parent was referring to the console itself.
The Ubuntu and Debian installers are quite clearly the same.
Well, "Us and Them" could sort of be interpreted as an allegory for the war on terror, in a broad sense:
Us and them
And after all we're only ordinary men
Me and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
The General sat, and the lines on the map
moved from side to side
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and down
And in the end it's only round and round
And round
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside
Down and out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With, without
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about
Out of the way, it's a busy day
I've got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died
"most decent modems" != all modems