Will people please stop talking about Ogg as though it were an audio compression scheme. It is not - it is a wrapper format.
Oh, unwad your panties - you known damn well they're talking about Ogg Vorbis. Just like when people talk about "Linux", yes, RMS, they're talking about GNU/Linux. We get it, OK??
The problem is of course the ionic breeze *ISN'T MOVING AIR*, and thus is hopelessy inefficent.
Gee, really? I could swear that, when I stick my hand in front of either of my units, I can feel air moving. Thus the name "Ionic BREEZE". No, it obviously doesn't move as much air as some big HEPA unit, but then it also doesn't make quite as much noise - as in, zero.
Any frame rate that exceeds the refresh rate of your display is effectively wasted. You just won't see the extra frames. A 23% improvement just means that many more frames you won't see.
Nope. What counts is your minimum frame rate. You want this to be at least 40-50 Hz, IMO, if you want your gaming experience to be free of "stuttering" or "jerkiness". An average of 40 fps can include momentary periods of 10 fps or less. To get a minimum frame rate of 40 Hz, you might need an average rate of 120 Hz, or even higher.
Well, no, it's kinda hard actually, what with the new digital cable boxes crashing all the time, and the service being out intermittently. The other guy got it right - the cable modem service rawks, but right now the TV service sucks ass.
Given the (as I see it) somewhat socialistic bent of/. readers, I'm surprised that people here are complaining over what can only seen as a global redistribution of wealth from the mean nasty bad evil USA to the poorer countries of the world. C'mon, guys, shouldn't you be happy about this?:-/
Take Iran as a test case. The current government was put into place by a revolution of the people. That's the government they chose. If given the option, right now, they'd choose it again. Is it "right" to remake their country in our own image?
But Saddam was not put in place by "a revolution of the people"; he seized power Hitler-style, by taking advantage of a weak government and a depressed economy.
No, no. This thread is about the best movies that have been forgotten. You're looking for the thread on movies that are best left forgotten - that's down the hall on the left.
Sure, you can. But first, you need someone who can write a spec that is actually worth a damn. And IMO, far, far less than 2% of the population is capable of that.
There are other hydrogen fuel cells out there, but they usually operate at high temperatures (the main advantage of PEM). It is not like you want to wait 5 minutes for your car to warm up before you leave.
No thanks, I'm late enough for work in the morning as it is. That's five more minutes I can't sleep.
what's the point of 1600x1200 on a 15 inch screen?
I've got one of these, and I'll tell you what the point is. With 133 dpi resolution, coupled with ClearType, on-screen text looks almost like looking at a printed page. It's effing gorgeous. No jaggies, no individual pixels - just seamless, smooth text. I'll never be happy with a mere XGA or 1280x1024 display again.
As a student of mechanical engineering, I understand that engineering is the *physical* application of physics and real science to a particular problem.
Why "physical"? Just because you say so? Software engineering is the process of applying current knowledge about computing to design systems of software and/or hardware that solve particular human problems. How is that not engineering?
And as for licensing/liability issues... once upon a time, electrical engineers weren't licensed, either. Their field was too new, and not so well understood. With time, that changed. With time, it will change for software professionals, too.
Ahh... First we kill a fly to embedd a webserver in its corpse, then we put it on slashdot and watch the webserver die... My evil plan has been fulfilled!
...does anyone remember The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress? Rocks thrown from the moon could make some pretty big dents in Manhattan, or Washington. Maybe by the time the Chinese start their "mining operations" up there, we should be sure to be there too, y'know, as "interested observers", real friendly like...
I did. I immediately got a picture in my head of a bunch of beret-wearing French existentialists sitting around smoking in a café, you know, doubting life...
I confess that I have only heard one of her songs, in passing, on Saturday Night [L]ive, so I can't speak to the body of work spanning her entire career.
If you're willing to step away from a pc-architecture, you can (get) one heck of a video card [sgi.com] from sgi.
And I'm sure that this is a great card for its intended mission, but I still wouldn't be surprised if a Radeon 9700 Pro or a GF4-4600 beats it on [your favorite 3D FPS here].
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Will people please stop talking about Ogg as though it were an audio compression scheme. It is not - it is a wrapper format.
Oh, unwad your panties - you known damn well they're talking about Ogg Vorbis. Just like when people talk about "Linux", yes, RMS, they're talking about GNU/Linux. We get it, OK??
Our entire national population is only 78,000 so you can imagine that we don't have exactly masses of tech jobs to start with.
78,000? Really? I didn't know there were still countries that small. Where, if you don't mind?
The problem is of course the ionic breeze *ISN'T MOVING AIR*, and thus is hopelessy inefficent.
Gee, really? I could swear that, when I stick my hand in front of either of my units, I can feel air moving. Thus the name "Ionic BREEZE". No, it obviously doesn't move as much air as some big HEPA unit, but then it also doesn't make quite as much noise - as in, zero.
Any frame rate that exceeds the refresh rate of your display is effectively wasted. You just won't see the extra frames. A 23% improvement just means that many more frames you won't see.
Nope. What counts is your minimum frame rate. You want this to be at least 40-50 Hz, IMO, if you want your gaming experience to be free of "stuttering" or "jerkiness". An average of 40 fps can include momentary periods of 10 fps or less. To get a minimum frame rate of 40 Hz, you might need an average rate of 120 Hz, or even higher.
Haha, you don't watch much TV, do you?
Well, no, it's kinda hard actually, what with the new digital cable boxes crashing all the time, and the service being out intermittently. The other guy got it right - the cable modem service rawks, but right now the TV service sucks ass.
Gibson's newest, Pattern Recognition, wouldn't require any fancy CGI or animation, and personally I think it would make a very good movie.
Given the (as I see it) somewhat socialistic bent of
Oh come on, any SW manager will tell you that any developer always has enough "free time" to squeeze in one more project.
Take Iran as a test case. The current government was put into place by a revolution of the people. That's the government they chose. If given the option, right now, they'd choose it again. Is it "right" to remake their country in our own image?
But Saddam was not put in place by "a revolution of the people"; he seized power Hitler-style, by taking advantage of a weak government and a depressed economy.
No, no. This thread is about the best movies that have been forgotten. You're looking for the thread on movies that are best left forgotten - that's down the hall on the left.
They got "Al-Jazeera'd".
You can email a spec to Shanghai in 10 seconds.
Sure, you can. But first, you need someone who can write a spec that is actually worth a damn. And IMO, far, far less than 2% of the population is capable of that.
There are other hydrogen fuel cells out there, but they usually operate at high temperatures (the main advantage of PEM). It is not like you want to wait 5 minutes for your car to warm up before you leave.
No thanks, I'm late enough for work in the morning as it is. That's five more minutes I can't sleep.
what's the point of 1600x1200 on a 15 inch screen?
I've got one of these, and I'll tell you what the point is. With 133 dpi resolution, coupled with ClearType, on-screen text looks almost like looking at a printed page. It's effing gorgeous. No jaggies, no individual pixels - just seamless, smooth text. I'll never be happy with a mere XGA or 1280x1024 display again.
And as for standards...if they're going to replace As Cs and Ds, sure.
Total non sequitur, but... whatever happened to "B" cells? Was there ever such a thing?
As a student of mechanical engineering, I understand that engineering is the *physical* application of physics and real science to a particular problem.
Why "physical"? Just because you say so? Software engineering is the process of applying current knowledge about computing to design systems of software and/or hardware that solve particular human problems. How is that not engineering?
And as for licensing/liability issues... once upon a time, electrical engineers weren't licensed, either. Their field was too new, and not so well understood. With time, that changed. With time, it will change for software professionals, too.
There are some paleoanthropologists, however, who think that H. heidelbergensis (I just love that name)
Do you think they were great swordfighters? I mean, if they all went to Heidelberg...
Ahh... First we kill a fly to embedd a webserver in its corpse, then we put it on slashdot and watch the webserver die... My evil plan has been fulfilled!
Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it!
...does anyone remember The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress? Rocks thrown from the moon could make some pretty big dents in Manhattan, or Washington. Maybe by the time the Chinese start their "mining operations" up there, we should be sure to be there too, y'know, as "interested observers", real friendly like...
Did anyone else read "European Life in Doubt"?
I did. I immediately got a picture in my head of a bunch of beret-wearing French existentialists sitting around smoking in a café, you know, doubting life...
I confess that I have only heard one of her songs, in passing, on Saturday Night [L]ive, so I can't speak to the body of work spanning her entire career.
No, I'd say you've about covered it.
you get more chicks when you are James Bond than when you're Roger Moore
I am Roger Moore, you insensitive clod!
And yes, I know I am smoking the wrong end!
It seems like a good start would be to stop calling it a "law," a term that has some kind of meaning, in a scientific sense.
Oh, jeez. No one ever actually thought it was like a law of nature. ('Cept you, I guess.)
If you're willing to step away from a pc-architecture, you can (get) one heck of a video card [sgi.com] from sgi.
And I'm sure that this is a great card for its intended mission, but I still wouldn't be surprised if a Radeon 9700 Pro or a GF4-4600 beats it on [your favorite 3D FPS here].
Or buy a digital HDTV using LCD, DLP, D-ILA, LCOS, or Plasma technology. They don't suffer from burn in.
Well, sure. 40" LCDs are only running, what, eight grand these days? No problem...