Actually, he said that one of the problems he had was that Photoshop (what version?) has a hard-coded limit of 30,000 pixels per dimension. As the big file is slighly larger than that (in width), he had to use different software to manipulate it.
Any decent frame store should do an 11'x1' frame without difficulty; should be a one-hour or while-you-wait thing. Also, it's still very easy to get banner paper, which most inkjet and dye sub printers are fine with; I don't know if your color laser will like it, though. Still going to be mediocre quality, but cool for the price.
Why not? I mean, if some OJ appears in your fridge, is there a reason you can't drink it? If a bike is in your garage, can't you use it? There may be issues about how it arrived there -- curiousity, if nothing else -- but if you have no reason to suspect it didn't arrive there legally, go for it.
Um, you may not get the advantages of >4GB physical memory, but you get the advantages of a >2GB virtual address space, which many of us consider a much bigger deal.
Um, doesn't every decent laptop have a magnesium (alloy) case these days, or close enough? I mean, I know sony's moved away from there towards carbon fiber (weight over heat conduction), and apple's in aluminum mode (better heat conduction, needs to be thicker)... but other than that, who uses anything else? Dell?
The relative importance of leakage increases at smaller geometries, but for all geometries on the near horizon, the increase isn't enough to outweigh the decrease in 'normal' (switching) power usage. This will probably change around 40 nm, but at 65 nm we're still making serious improvements.
While I know that was meant as a joke, it's important to point out that the power grid/isn't/ used for critical infrastructure. No hospital, or air traffic control station, or powerplant (oh, the irony) would be caught dead without a backup power system.
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You have to realize there's a certain minimum cost to retail processors, the same way there is to, say, video cards. You can't sell an AGP video card for $30 MSRP. The cost of packaging, shelf space, support, etc. outweighs the cost of hardware by so much at that level that, even if the hardware were essentially free, the product price would be around $30 or so. Ditto for processors; once a processor goes below about $40, it seems like it's no longer worth producing; the cost of packaging and so on outweighs any possible further reduction in price. On the other end, at $5 or so they become worth producing again (see PICs and such) because, at that point, no packaging or support is expected... but don't expect to ever find a nice $40 CPU to put in your motherboard.
IBM? 700MHz? 5W? What are you smoking? These are (presumably) 4xx family chips. The 7xx family, modern style, uses about 3W, maybe less, at 700MHz. I'd wager they're at much less than 2W per chip, so the whole thing is using around 2kW, which is not all that much power if evenly distributed.
Ah, but increasing power to the wheels does increase range. This is because battery storage isn't constant. If you have a battery that can provide, say, 2 kWh with a current draw of 20A, it may provide only 1 kWh if you draw 100A. (These numbers are probably pretty reasonable for a light-weight, 48V car). Another aspect of automobiles, of course, is that you need more power to accelerate than you do to cruise, yet you spend 90%+ of your time cruising. So, without using a capacitor pack, you have the options of getting screwed when using more than usual power (reducing range), or building for higher current draw (increasing weight and decreasing range, or decreasing space for more battery and decreasing range). With a capacitor pack, you can shield the battery from the increased draw almost all the time (unless someone's flooring it for thirty seconds straight, for instance), meaning (as you said) increased power, but also meaning increased range if the capacitor pack's weight is reasonable.
State of the art in capacitor technology: www.maxwell.com/ultracapacitors
They have seriously cool stuff, and they sell small quantities (i.e., 1) so you can play around. Their ultracapacitors have 10x the power density and 0.1x the energy density of batteries, more or less, so except for specialized applications you're looking at a combination of the two, not one or the other, in an efficient system.
As a Lisp hacker (and as someone who can afford some karma for an offtopic), while I agree that S-exprs are much more graceful than XML, there is a very deep difference which should be remembered. S-exprs, in their commonly understood form, represent a tree. XML documents, in their specified form, represent a graph. That is, the set of structures representable in XML is a strict superset of those structures representable by S-exprs. With that said, very few people actually use the graph nature of XML (one of the few examples I can think is the anchor concept in XHTML). Just a quick fact check.
So what would have happened on election day and the North-East went dark?
The same thing that happened on 9/11 (which, incidentally, was an election day in new york). All votes previous to that time are discarded, election is rescheduled for a different date.
"Killing is justifiable" is a pretty strong political statement. It may be a commonly held one (what part of "thou shall not kill" don't radical christians understand?), but that does not diminish the fact that it is a polarizing, non-universal, politcal view.
The 900Mhz G3 is probably the coolest/best performing/per Mhz
Except of course for the same chip (the 750FX) at, say, 600MHz, or less. The G3 is seriously bandwidth-starved in most configurations I've seen (it supports a 200MHz FSB, but I've never seen it used with more than 167); scaling down the clock-speed gives sub-linear decrease in performance, linear (well, close enough; moreso than for most non-arm chips) decrease in heat and power consumption.
Don't get me wrong, the 750FX is, in my opinion, the nicest piece of silicon yet produced (and I'd much rather have a 4-core G3 than a 1-core G5 with the same number of transistors)... but people (and, of course, in particular apple) need to realize that this chip had dual phase-locked-loops and takes less time to switch clock speeds than to switch processes... dynamic scaling is Good, constant 900MHz (or 900MHz and then, blindly, 600Mhz when unplugged from the wall) is Silly and Bad.
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Um... he only used one camera, you know. Right?
Actually, he said that one of the problems he had was that Photoshop (what version?) has a hard-coded limit of 30,000 pixels per dimension. As the big file is slighly larger than that (in width), he had to use different software to manipulate it.
Any decent frame store should do an 11'x1' frame without difficulty; should be a one-hour or while-you-wait thing. Also, it's still very easy to get banner paper, which most inkjet and dye sub printers are fine with; I don't know if your color laser will like it, though. Still going to be mediocre quality, but cool for the price.
I knew there was some use case where XPM actually made sense! Thanks.
Fantasia.
Why not? I mean, if some OJ appears in your fridge, is there a reason you can't drink it? If a bike is in your garage, can't you use it? There may be issues about how it arrived there -- curiousity, if nothing else -- but if you have no reason to suspect it didn't arrive there legally, go for it.
How much does a balloon weigh in a vacuum? How much does it weigh otherwise?
Would you pop open the case of your VCR and replace the damaged or worn out heads?
No, it's cheaper to get a new one, or use it as an excuse to switch to DVD.
Would you buy yourself a new DVD tray and motor and replace it when it goes bad?
No, that would be covered under warrantee.
Would you replace the screen of your Palm when it gets scratched?
Yes, wouldn't you?
Would you replace the lense of your digital camera if it gets moisture inside?
No, I'd probably just dry it.
I could go on.
Please do, I don't think we have enough data points to extrapolate your point yet.
Weighing it in a vacuum will make it seem heavier, to the scale.
Um, you may not get the advantages of >4GB physical memory, but you get the advantages of a >2GB virtual address space, which many of us consider a much bigger deal.
Um, doesn't every decent laptop have a magnesium (alloy) case these days, or close enough? I mean, I know sony's moved away from there towards carbon fiber (weight over heat conduction), and apple's in aluminum mode (better heat conduction, needs to be thicker)... but other than that, who uses anything else? Dell?
The relative importance of leakage increases at smaller geometries, but for all geometries on the near horizon, the increase isn't enough to outweigh the decrease in 'normal' (switching) power usage. This will probably change around 40 nm, but at 65 nm we're still making serious improvements.
While I know that was meant as a joke, it's important to point out that the power grid /isn't/ used for critical infrastructure. No hospital, or air traffic control station, or powerplant (oh, the irony) would be caught dead without a backup power system.
Graph, not tree.
You have to realize there's a certain minimum cost to retail processors, the same way there is to, say, video cards. You can't sell an AGP video card for $30 MSRP. The cost of packaging, shelf space, support, etc. outweighs the cost of hardware by so much at that level that, even if the hardware were essentially free, the product price would be around $30 or so. Ditto for processors; once a processor goes below about $40, it seems like it's no longer worth producing; the cost of packaging and so on outweighs any possible further reduction in price. On the other end, at $5 or so they become worth producing again (see PICs and such) because, at that point, no packaging or support is expected... but don't expect to ever find a nice $40 CPU to put in your motherboard.
Yep, you did. Sorry about that. Better luck next time.
Speed of light sucks, doesn't it?
There's more to life than bandwidth. Latency does matter.
IBM? 700MHz? 5W? What are you smoking? These are (presumably) 4xx family chips. The 7xx family, modern style, uses about 3W, maybe less, at 700MHz. I'd wager they're at much less than 2W per chip, so the whole thing is using around 2kW, which is not all that much power if evenly distributed.
Ah, but increasing power to the wheels does increase range. This is because battery storage isn't constant. If you have a battery that can provide, say, 2 kWh with a current draw of 20A, it may provide only 1 kWh if you draw 100A. (These numbers are probably pretty reasonable for a light-weight, 48V car). Another aspect of automobiles, of course, is that you need more power to accelerate than you do to cruise, yet you spend 90%+ of your time cruising. So, without using a capacitor pack, you have the options of getting screwed when using more than usual power (reducing range), or building for higher current draw (increasing weight and decreasing range, or decreasing space for more battery and decreasing range). With a capacitor pack, you can shield the battery from the increased draw almost all the time (unless someone's flooring it for thirty seconds straight, for instance), meaning (as you said) increased power, but also meaning increased range if the capacitor pack's weight is reasonable.
State of the art in capacitor technology: www.maxwell.com/ultracapacitors
They have seriously cool stuff, and they sell small quantities (i.e., 1) so you can play around. Their ultracapacitors have 10x the power density and 0.1x the energy density of batteries, more or less, so except for specialized applications you're looking at a combination of the two, not one or the other, in an efficient system.
As a Lisp hacker (and as someone who can afford some karma for an offtopic), while I agree that S-exprs are much more graceful than XML, there is a very deep difference which should be remembered. S-exprs, in their commonly understood form, represent a tree. XML documents, in their specified form, represent a graph. That is, the set of structures representable in XML is a strict superset of those structures representable by S-exprs. With that said, very few people actually use the graph nature of XML (one of the few examples I can think is the anchor concept in XHTML). Just a quick fact check.
Except that you can, I'm pretty sure. (c) is a unicode letter entity, no? Which is valid as the first character in a java identifier.
Now, that said, clearly this is a strange ocr / autocorrect issue.
So what would have happened on election day and the North-East went dark?
The same thing that happened on 9/11 (which, incidentally, was an election day in new york). All votes previous to that time are discarded, election is rescheduled for a different date.
"Killing is justifiable" is a pretty strong political statement. It may be a commonly held one (what part of "thou shall not kill" don't radical christians understand?), but that does not diminish the fact that it is a polarizing, non-universal, politcal view.
The 900Mhz G3 is probably the coolest/best performing/per Mhz
Except of course for the same chip (the 750FX) at, say, 600MHz, or less. The G3 is seriously bandwidth-starved in most configurations I've seen (it supports a 200MHz FSB, but I've never seen it used with more than 167); scaling down the clock-speed gives sub-linear decrease in performance, linear (well, close enough; moreso than for most non-arm chips) decrease in heat and power consumption.
Don't get me wrong, the 750FX is, in my opinion, the nicest piece of silicon yet produced (and I'd much rather have a 4-core G3 than a 1-core G5 with the same number of transistors)... but people (and, of course, in particular apple) need to realize that this chip had dual phase-locked-loops and takes less time to switch clock speeds than to switch processes... dynamic scaling is Good, constant 900MHz (or 900MHz and then, blindly, 600Mhz when unplugged from the wall) is Silly and Bad.