Nevermind... from TFA: "Mr. Jackson's suit was filed on Feb. 28. In an April 29 court filing, New Line categorically denied all of his claims." Looks like it is the same lawsuit, there is only one ongoing lawsuit.
The solution here is not to run Windows games, but to find more ways to convince major game developers that they should release ports to linux directly.
Ironically, one way to convince the major game developers to have native Linux port is to have transgaming succeed.
When Loki Games existed, I enjoyed playing Heroes III, Kohan and Myth 2 on my Linux box. Too bad Loki could not last.
The ports by Loki were decent, especially for games where performance isn't critical. For e.g., playing Kohan was fine, but then try speeding up the playback to 8x (800%), and I notice it was playing maybe just at 3x the speed... on Windows, it really could playback at 8x.
I think the market for Linux gaming has to grow a lot more before game companies can justify the engineering cost of native Linux port. Some way to grow Linux desktop is through improvements on KDE/GNOME, OpenOffice, FireFox, Thunderbird, etc., but efforts like transgaming also help grow the Linux desktop share.
Quote: "In my research, I have found the diameter of human hair to range from 17 to 181 [micrometer/microns]."
Assume a circular hair of 100 microns diameter, and assume the end of it is a flat circle of area Pi*Rad^2, or 7854 micron^2, divide this by 50000 and you get 0.157 micron^2 per SRAM cell.
The article mentions how IBM's SRAM cell is 10 times smaller than the current smallest. A Google for smallest SRAM cell gets you the Intel press release in March 2002 (too old?) that claims a 1 micron^2 SRAM cell.
Sounds about right to me. Given the range of hair diameter from 17 micron to 181 micron, the corresponding SRAM sizes would range from 0.0045 micron^2 to 0.51 micron^2. For exactly 0.1 micron^2 (a tenth of Intel's 2002 record), the hair diameter should be 80 micron.
Also, looks like the hair width varies too much from person to person to make it a realiable metric!
I have frequently and unintentionally managed to move my optical mouse without moving the mouse cursor. I use my notebook (with a small optical USB mouse) on top of a glass table. I actually have to *remember* to put something under the optical mouse!
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Here is how to determine the accuracy of Google Earth's measure tool (goto Tool menu, select Measure).
It has been measured, in 1958, that Harvard Bridge is 364.4 Smoots plus one ear. I tried, and yes, it was about 364.4 smoots according to Google Earth.
Nevermind... from TFA: "Mr. Jackson's suit was filed on Feb. 28. In an April 29 court filing, New Line categorically denied all of his claims." Looks like it is the same lawsuit, there is only one ongoing lawsuit.
It seems Peter Jackson has sued New Line before for lost revenue from merchandising, video and computer games releases. This was back in March 2005.
Are there others? What is the status of the March lawsuit?
The one "ring" to permeate this story: greed.
The solution here is not to run Windows games, but to find more ways to convince major game developers that they should release ports to linux directly.
Ironically, one way to convince the major game developers to have native Linux port is to have transgaming succeed.
When Loki Games existed, I enjoyed playing Heroes III, Kohan and Myth 2 on my Linux box. Too bad Loki could not last.
The ports by Loki were decent, especially for games where performance isn't critical. For e.g., playing Kohan was fine, but then try speeding up the playback to 8x (800%), and I notice it was playing maybe just at 3x the speed... on Windows, it really could playback at 8x.
I think the market for Linux gaming has to grow a lot more before game companies can justify the engineering cost of native Linux port. Some way to grow Linux desktop is through improvements on KDE/GNOME, OpenOffice, FireFox, Thunderbird, etc., but efforts like transgaming also help grow the Linux desktop share.
top500.org provided statistics for all top 500. For breakdown by processor family, see http://top500.org/sublist/stats/index.php?list=25& type=procfam&submit=Generate+Table. Assuming your summary for top 50 is correct, the statistics is rather different from top 500.
I don't know why top500.org didn't provide breakdown by operating system, so I found out myself. Here it is:
328 (65.6%): Linux
73 (14.6%): HP Unix (HP-UX)
52 (10.4%): AIX
16 (3.2%): UNICOS
7 (1.4%): Super-UX
6 (1.2%): Solaris
4 (0.8%): Tru64 UNIX
4 (0.8%): MacOS X
3 (0.6%): SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
2 (0.4%): Redhat Enterprise 3
2 (0.4%): HI-UX/MPP
1 (0.2%): SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
1 (0.2%): Paragon OS
1 (0.2%): IRIX
I expected a few Windows, but surprisingly there is none at all. Not sure how accurate top500.org's "Operating System" field value is though.
Eh? Should the parent be "Funny" or "Insightful"? Scarlatti's cat did compose, to Czerny's profit!
They say 50.000 at the end of a human hair. Do anybody know the actual size of this cell?
First match on Google for diameter of human hair is:l
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/BrianLey.shtm
Quote: "In my research, I have found the diameter of human hair to range from 17 to 181 [micrometer/microns]."
Assume a circular hair of 100 microns diameter, and assume the end of it is a flat circle of area Pi*Rad^2, or 7854 micron^2, divide this by 50000 and you get 0.157 micron^2 per SRAM cell.
The article mentions how IBM's SRAM cell is 10 times smaller than the current smallest. A Google for smallest SRAM cell gets you the Intel press release in March 2002 (too old?) that claims a 1 micron^2 SRAM cell.
Sounds about right to me. Given the range of hair diameter from 17 micron to 181 micron, the corresponding SRAM sizes would range from 0.0045 micron^2 to 0.51 micron^2. For exactly 0.1 micron^2 (a tenth of Intel's 2002 record), the hair diameter should be 80 micron.
Also, looks like the hair width varies too much from person to person to make it a realiable metric!
This can happen easily and accidentally!
I have frequently and unintentionally managed to move my optical mouse without moving the mouse cursor. I use my notebook (with a small optical USB mouse) on top of a glass table. I actually have to *remember* to put something under the optical mouse!