How does the ship floats if it's surrounded by air? If it can "float" on thin air, why can't it "float" on "thick air", i.e. "fly"?
I have heard of such a technique several years ago for torpedoes. But those torpedoes go fast and have wings still in contact with the water to provide the lift.
It's a bit more complicated than that. The x86 at its very core is RISC: it converts all the CISC instructions into RISC like micro-instructions.
But then, I read somewhere that Intel is now starting to do the opposite again with its "Wide Dynamic Execution": it combines several micro-instructions into one macro-instruction and also combines CISC instructions into even bigger ones.
The only disadvantage is that you need a XP machine at home. But then, you can stream all your music that you already have, no need to buy it again. And it's not just music, you can also stream video, tv, photo,.... And on any device, not just your Cingular phone. And it's really free, no monthly fees or things like that.
No way I'm going to pay Cingular for something so limited!
I think that the problem with the signature screens is that the sensitive part is far from the display itself. So depending on where your head is when you look at it, you get a pronounced parallax effect. On most "regular" touchscreens, the distance is small so you don't get that effect in such a noticeable way.
For the signature screens, I would not be surprised that the increased distance is on purpose. Seeing how some screens are scratched, some people are real brutes with the stylus so the developers increased the distance to avoid breaking/scratching the display itself.
Who is supposed to have a social obligation? The guy who provided the gun or the guy who use it? The guy who provided the poison or the guy who use it? If you start blaming anybody else than the user, then you can blame pretty much anybody. You can blame the store selling the weapon, you can blame the manufacturer of the weapon, you can blame the researcher working/inventing the weapon, you can blame the people who provided the tools to make the weapons, you can blame the people providing the material to make them, you can blame the parents for not educating their child correctly, you can blame the grand-parents for not teaching their kids how to raise kids, you can blame the schools for the bad education or the bad environment, you can blame the people hiring the teachers, you can blame the entertainment industry for showing violent stuff or "teaching" how to use weapons,...As I said, pretty much anybody is to blame. In the end, only the user is really to blame.
Mmmm....so since your ability to be killed by a giant fireball exists independently of any specific tool (e.g. a nuclear bomb) that exploits it...you would perhaps also think it would be contrary to common sense to call for restrictions on who can possess (or publish on the Web directions for building) a nuclear bomb?
The research on how to make nuclear bomb plans require quite some resources. Even most countries can't afford it. So restricting access to existing plans greatly increases the cost of entering the club of nuclear weapons owners and thus greatly reduces the risk that some fanatic builds their own little bomb.
In the case of the plane ticket, nearly everybody and his dog can figure out how to print one so restricting access to the software has little to no impact. It would far more efficient to fix the security system than suing that guy.
And you still want to go that way of restricting things, what about restricting access to the printers and paper? They are also required to print those tickets?
We need 64-bit Firefox ASAP, how else can we open web sites with more than 4GB of content?
And more importantly, with that much accessible memory, this will allow us to use Firefox for four continuous hours instead of three before we need to restart it because of a leaking add-on!
Don't hit me, I'm just kidding, I never had any memory issue with FF, I swear!
Clearly, moving from 5 to 3 would make Wikipedia substantially less wiki
Clearly? Sorry, but I actually think it's better and "more wiki". I think that your 3) is actually more wiki than any of your point 4) to 6).
With the new scheme, *anybody* can edit *any* page. Isn't that better than have *some* pages not editable at all? With 3), anybody get a chances to see their changes on a public page. It may require approval, true, but at least you can be heard. That is not the case with 4)-6)
the aliens will be able to spy on all the communication with Earth to know when best to attack because of unshielded cables
they will be able to approach without detection becuse at a temperature of about 0 Kelvin, there is no way the Orion's FLIR will work
then they will be able to get into the control cockpit without resistance because of the surveillance cameras' blind spots.
But, if for some reason the aliens are on vacation, when the lander approaches the moon, they will crash because they won't even now they arrived (again, not camera, no FLIR, and with the static from the Sun interfering with the unshielded cables, they won't be able to hear what NASA's control center will tell them)
I remember a talk from someone (John Carmack I think) saying something like raytracing is nice but overkill. Today's hardware maybe be able to handle realtime raytracers but no way near the quality you can get from current 3D engines.
Most special effects you see in current engines are approximation/hacks compared to what you can do with a raytracer but it's also way cheaper to compute.
It's the same kind of relationship than between texture maps vs procedural textures. Procedural textures are better for a rendering point of view, they scale better. But it's also lot harder to make a good quality texture and it requires a lot more power to render.
I don't know if the GP is right or not about scholarships only for black (or hispanics, asian, whatever) but if indeed the scholarships is based on the race, then it is racism. Why should it matter if the kid has poor black parents or poor white parents or poor yellow parents? What matters is that the parents are poor. Because of old racism issues, more black people will be poor, so more scholarships will be awarded to them than to whites. But that's only statistics. The family would needs the scholarships the most is the poorer, not the blacker. If the scholarship favor a black family over a poorer but white family, it is racist. Racist against the white.
That reminds me of this episode of South Park when Chef wanted the flag to be changed because it was racist and Stan and Kyle didn't even see that a "black" guy was persecuted by a "white". It didn't matter to them. They just saw "a" guy persecuted by "another" guy.
If you are not racist, then the skin color does not matter, the religion does not matter, the country of origin does not matter. A poor family is a poor family whatever its color. Period. Nothing more, nothing less.
Procedural texturing is another form of texture compression. The advantage of procedural textures is that it take less space than regular bitmap textures and you can have some sort on uniqueness (no repeating pattern). But it's still an automated rendering and thus has limitation.
- you still don't get full control on the look. If you want to add a rabbit hole texture in a particular area, you still have to create a polygon just for it or do some other texture trick to add that texture over the normal grass texture that surround the hole.
- and you still have to deal with seams when two texture has to be merged, like moving from a grass area to dirt area.
With the Mega Texturing, the artist can paint the rabbit hole and the seams just as he wants. He is limited only by his imagination.
Would Windows be considered taxable because it afterall contains Solitare and Minesweeper which clearly are games?
Obviously, Politics(tm) is a great game, all Politicians(tm) seems to enjoy it very much, even when they don't understand it (which most don't). Hopefully Politicians(tm) will be taxed. And since it look like a MMORPG type of game, they should be taxed monthly. At 5% their salary each month, schools won't have any budget problem for quite a while.
If someone wants to talk in the street, he can. However, if I don't like it, I can go away or wear earplugs.
Spammers, when they "disguise their messages", they don't do it as a form of expression, they do it to circumvent spam filters. It's as if that guy in the street starts to follow me and speak louder so that the earplugs become ineffective. That's harrasment and IIRC, it's illegal.
To indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities.
Sending one email to one person doesn't fit the category. "10000 emails" fits the "mass quantities" part but it may still be discriminate (unlikely but possible for bug businesses). "millions of emails", like most spammers use, is definitely indiscriminate. I don't see what filtering criteria would return millions of addresses for a sollicited and wanted and relevant and appropriate message.
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How does the ship floats if it's surrounded by air? If it can "float" on thin air, why can't it "float" on "thick air", i.e. "fly"?
I have heard of such a technique several years ago for torpedoes. But those torpedoes go fast and have wings still in contact with the water to provide the lift.
It's a bit more complicated than that. The x86 at its very core is RISC: it converts all the CISC instructions into RISC like micro-instructions.
But then, I read somewhere that Intel is now starting to do the opposite again with its "Wide Dynamic Execution": it combines several micro-instructions into one macro-instruction and also combines CISC instructions into even bigger ones.
Easy....you....just....need....to....speak....slow ....ly....
There are not fully effective black list either. So lets burn all computers. ;)
All I can say is: use Orb.
The only disadvantage is that you need a XP machine at home. But then, you can stream all your music that you already have, no need to buy it again. And it's not just music, you can also stream video, tv, photo, .... And on any device, not just your Cingular phone. And it's really free, no monthly fees or things like that.
No way I'm going to pay Cingular for something so limited!
I think that the problem with the signature screens is that the sensitive part is far from the display itself. So depending on where your head is when you look at it, you get a pronounced parallax effect. On most "regular" touchscreens, the distance is small so you don't get that effect in such a noticeable way.
For the signature screens, I would not be surprised that the increased distance is on purpose. Seeing how some screens are scratched, some people are real brutes with the stylus so the developers increased the distance to avoid breaking/scratching the display itself.
Who is supposed to have a social obligation? The guy who provided the gun or the guy who use it? The guy who provided the poison or the guy who use it? If you start blaming anybody else than the user, then you can blame pretty much anybody. You can blame the store selling the weapon, you can blame the manufacturer of the weapon, you can blame the researcher working/inventing the weapon, you can blame the people who provided the tools to make the weapons, you can blame the people providing the material to make them, you can blame the parents for not educating their child correctly, you can blame the grand-parents for not teaching their kids how to raise kids, you can blame the schools for the bad education or the bad environment, you can blame the people hiring the teachers, you can blame the entertainment industry for showing violent stuff or "teaching" how to use weapons,...As I said, pretty much anybody is to blame. In the end, only the user is really to blame.
The research on how to make nuclear bomb plans require quite some resources. Even most countries can't afford it. So restricting access to existing plans greatly increases the cost of entering the club of nuclear weapons owners and thus greatly reduces the risk that some fanatic builds their own little bomb.
In the case of the plane ticket, nearly everybody and his dog can figure out how to print one so restricting access to the software has little to no impact. It would far more efficient to fix the security system than suing that guy.
And you still want to go that way of restricting things, what about restricting access to the printers and paper? They are also required to print those tickets?
And more importantly, with that much accessible memory, this will allow us to use Firefox for four continuous hours instead of three before we need to restart it because of a leaking add-on!
Don't hit me, I'm just kidding, I never had any memory issue with FF, I swear!
...I'm currently at 1,135,972 digits for 1/3. Also, I already finished reciting all the digits for 1/2.
I found a weakness in your brain. Who is to blame, the As, Cs, Gs or Ts?
You'd have thought your parents would have caught this sooner. It's not like it's that long of a list to exhaustively test.
Sorry, I couldn't resist :)
And what if there is no wind for a sail boat?
And soon, we'll learn that people killed themselves on the project, while in truth, they just died of old age.
Clearly? Sorry, but I actually think it's better and "more wiki". I think that your 3) is actually more wiki than any of your point 4) to 6).
With the new scheme, *anybody* can edit *any* page. Isn't that better than have *some* pages not editable at all? With 3), anybody get a chances to see their changes on a public page. It may require approval, true, but at least you can be heard. That is not the case with 4)-6)
Don't bet one it. Given Lockheed Martin's track record, they will be attacked by aliens without even them knowing:
But, if for some reason the aliens are on vacation, when the lander approaches the moon, they will crash because they won't even now they arrived (again, not camera, no FLIR, and with the static from the Sun interfering with the unshielded cables, they won't be able to hear what NASA's control center will tell them)
I remember a talk from someone (John Carmack I think) saying something like raytracing is nice but overkill. Today's hardware maybe be able to handle realtime raytracers but no way near the quality you can get from current 3D engines.
Most special effects you see in current engines are approximation/hacks compared to what you can do with a raytracer but it's also way cheaper to compute.
It's the same kind of relationship than between texture maps vs procedural textures. Procedural textures are better for a rendering point of view, they scale better. But it's also lot harder to make a good quality texture and it requires a lot more power to render.
(*) at the time of writing.
That reminds me of this episode of South Park when Chef wanted the flag to be changed because it was racist and Stan and Kyle didn't even see that a "black" guy was persecuted by a "white". It didn't matter to them. They just saw "a" guy persecuted by "another" guy.
If you are not racist, then the skin color does not matter, the religion does not matter, the country of origin does not matter. A poor family is a poor family whatever its color. Period. Nothing more, nothing less.
Can an infinite number of Cell Companies having an infinite amount of time eventually improve Linux?
They could use a "switch" ad. Red vs Blue already did a great one
- you still don't get full control on the look. If you want to add a rabbit hole texture in a particular area, you still have to create a polygon just for it or do some other texture trick to add that texture over the normal grass texture that surround the hole.
- and you still have to deal with seams when two texture has to be merged, like moving from a grass area to dirt area.
With the Mega Texturing, the artist can paint the rabbit hole and the seams just as he wants. He is limited only by his imagination.
Obviously, Politics(tm) is a great game, all Politicians(tm) seems to enjoy it very much, even when they don't understand it (which most don't). Hopefully Politicians(tm) will be taxed. And since it look like a MMORPG type of game, they should be taxed monthly. At 5% their salary each month, schools won't have any budget problem for quite a while.
Ah... what about the other 12 minutes of commercials?
Or tell us what country you leave in please.
Spammers, when they "disguise their messages", they don't do it as a form of expression, they do it to circumvent spam filters. It's as if that guy in the street starts to follow me and speak louder so that the earplugs become ineffective. That's harrasment and IIRC, it's illegal.
As for the definition of spammer, first one (emphasis mine):
Sending one email to one person doesn't fit the category. "10000 emails" fits the "mass quantities" part but it may still be discriminate (unlikely but possible for bug businesses). "millions of emails", like most spammers use, is definitely indiscriminate. I don't see what filtering criteria would return millions of addresses for a sollicited and wanted and relevant and appropriate message.