The number of instructions per second is not useful when comparing RISC and CISC architectures. You can do more with one CISC instruction than with one RISC instruction. It is very difficult to compare speeds across architectures except by using common benchmarks.
But it really can't be a solution for everybody, can it? First of all not everyone has access to a restaurant to get used cooking oil, and last I checked, cooking oil is more expensive at the grocery store than gasoline (I guess it depends on where you live).
Roulette with just the color does not give you 50% odds of winning. There are the 0 and 00 slots so you actually have an 18/38 shot. Not quite 50%, but with these odds, eventually you will lose if you keep betting on it.
This is probably true, but just out of curiosity, what do you think the upper age limit for a gamer is generally? There are baseball players in their 40's, and a few NFL kickers. Do you think a gamer could continue into their 50s-60s? (I hope so). I could see retirement homes in 40 years with old NES games, with huge icons, and slowed down processing time so we can still play SMB.:-)
This is true for certain types of games, but even then, eventually mental faculties decline (at least in terms of speed) and older people get more forgetful (although my grandfather was sharp as a tack until the day he died). Although I doubt a 70 year old would embark on a professional gaming career.:-)
Just like professional athelets, you may be able to get a whole lot of money for playing a game, but the competition is fierce, and you have to be really good to do it. Not to mention that there is probably no long term viability as you age and your reflexes go south. It will happen eventually.
Well, pass me some crow. After checking some of the replies, an anonymous coward wrote
I think you will find that the BBC got the spelling from mississippi state univeristy.
Wondering where he found that information, I clicked on the "Related Links" link from the BBC article, did a little more clicking, and found the following excepts from this article
After many puzzling months, RLF finally went to the Biology library and found that, yes, dwarfed bacterial cells were known, variously called spores, resting stages, or ultramicrobacteria. Along the way, a friend stopped by to examine the photos and said that these looked like what had been called "nannobacteria" (term coined by R. Y. Morita in 1988).. So Folk adopted that term, analogous to "nannoplankton" or "nannofossils" common terms in geology dating back to the 1800's.
Guess it's not the BBC's fault after all, though I still prefer "nanobacteria".
I find that the math courses I took in college had about as much relevance to the comp sci courses I was taking as the comp sci courses themselves had to the actual work I do as a computer programmer.
On the one end of the spectrum is pure theory, and proof, and on the other hand, we have complete practice, and "get it done now".
Math is a great theoretical background for computing, and made some of the algorithmic courses a breeze.
Ironically, I found the proofs in algorithms classes an attempt by computer scientists to say "see, we are a real discipline, we do proofs too", but I found that I wanted the CS courses to be a counter to all of the proofs and theory I got in my math courses. I wanted some "hands on" learning.
Once I got out in the real world, especially with languages like Java, even the CS theory/practice (this is a hash table, now write one), I found that most of the data structures/algorithmic stuff had been written and I just filled in pieces.
Where am I going with this? I guess basically that math is useful for comprehension in CS classes, but depending on the programming you do, you may not even use the CS you learn in the real world, let alone the math. But understanding is good.
IANAL, but if they send the letters out to people that are hosting copyrighted materials (as opposed to downloading them), I would interpret the "immediately remove the allegedly infringing works" to mean "no longer make avaliable for download". This might mean simply removing the item from your "shared" folder, for Kazaa for example. Your hard drive is not under the control of their "Acceptable Use policy", but any content you make available to people on the network IS under that control. All IHHO, of course.
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Here's some kindling...
vi is better than emacs
bsd is better than linux
gnome is better than kde
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anything else?
oh yeah...
my dad can beat up your dad.
And you smell funny.
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
Buzz Armstrong?
I think you mean Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
The number of instructions per second is not useful when comparing RISC and CISC architectures. You can do more with one CISC instruction than with one RISC instruction. It is very difficult to compare speeds across architectures except by using common benchmarks.
Using this might keep people from being able to use a camcorder too.
But it really can't be a solution for everybody, can it? First of all not everyone has access to a restaurant to get used cooking oil, and last I checked, cooking oil is more expensive at the grocery store than gasoline (I guess it depends on where you live).
Just a note on your sig
"from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee" -Khan
While it is true that he said this, you might want to know that originally, Captain Ahab said it in Moby Dick.
Roulette with just the color does not give you 50% odds of winning. There are the 0 and 00 slots so you actually have an 18/38 shot. Not quite 50%, but with these odds, eventually you will lose if you keep betting on it.
Patents do NOT last 75 years. Patents last 20 years (or maybe 17), COPYRIGHT lasts 75 years. There is a difference.
This is probably true, but just out of curiosity, what do you think the upper age limit for a gamer is generally? There are baseball players in their 40's, and a few NFL kickers. Do you think a gamer could continue into their 50s-60s? (I hope so). I could see retirement homes in 40 years with old NES games, with huge icons, and slowed down processing time so we can still play SMB. :-)
This is true for certain types of games, but even then, eventually mental faculties decline (at least in terms of speed) and older people get more forgetful (although my grandfather was sharp as a tack until the day he died). Although I doubt a 70 year old would embark on a professional gaming career. :-)
Just like professional athelets, you may be able to get a whole lot of money for playing a game, but the competition is fierce, and you have to be really good to do it. Not to mention that there is probably no long term viability as you age and your reflexes go south. It will happen eventually.
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Well, pass me some crow. After checking some of the replies, an anonymous coward wrote
I think you will find that the BBC got the spelling from mississippi state univeristy.
Wondering where he found that information, I clicked on the "Related Links" link from the BBC article, did a little more clicking, and found the following excepts from this article
After many puzzling months, RLF finally went to the Biology library and found that, yes, dwarfed bacterial cells were known, variously called spores, resting stages, or ultramicrobacteria. Along the way, a friend stopped by to examine the photos and said that these looked like what had been called "nannobacteria" (term coined by R. Y. Morita in 1988).. So Folk adopted that term, analogous to "nannoplankton" or "nannofossils" common terms in geology dating back to the 1800's.
Guess it's not the BBC's fault after all, though I still prefer "nanobacteria".
nannobacteria? Come on! Not just once, but several times in the article.
Blame Google
Thanks. My post was a google machine translation, as I know not a word of Spanish myself. :-)
marca de la bestia
:-)
(Thanks google.
My first thought was that it had something to do with the mania involved with the (now old) exchange:
:-)
You-da-man! No You-da-man!, etc..
Eu-dae-man-ia
Guess not.
Nanootechnology
I find that the math courses I took in college had about as much relevance to the comp sci courses I was taking as the comp sci courses themselves had to the actual work I do as a computer programmer.
On the one end of the spectrum is pure theory, and proof, and on the other hand, we have complete practice, and "get it done now".
Math is a great theoretical background for computing, and made some of the algorithmic courses a breeze.
Ironically, I found the proofs in algorithms classes an attempt by computer scientists to say "see, we are a real discipline, we do proofs too", but I found that I wanted the CS courses to be a counter to all of the proofs and theory I got in my math courses. I wanted some "hands on" learning.
Once I got out in the real world, especially with languages like Java, even the CS theory/practice (this is a hash table, now write one), I found that most of the data structures/algorithmic stuff had been written and I just filled in pieces.
Where am I going with this? I guess basically that math is useful for comprehension in CS classes, but depending on the programming you do, you may not even use the CS you learn in the real world, let alone the math. But understanding is good.
I would tend to disagree. I think the people missing the most teeth are old people, and they do tend to vote.
The article doesn't seem to say whether or not these teeth can be grown without fetal stem cells. Expect protest if so.
IANAL, but if they send the letters out to people that are hosting copyrighted materials (as opposed to downloading them), I would interpret the "immediately remove the allegedly infringing works" to mean "no longer make avaliable for download". This might mean simply removing the item from your "shared" folder, for Kazaa for example. Your hard drive is not under the control of their "Acceptable Use policy", but any content you make available to people on the network IS under that control. All IHHO, of course.
Although there's nothing like the works of Shakespeare as read in the original Klingon...