To solder BGAs, try a toaster oven. I haven't tried it so I can't vouch for its effectiveness, but others have had some pretty impressive success with the method. Also, please note, ">" is generally read "greater than". What you wanted to use was "<", read "less than". (I have no other disagreement with you, so forgive me if this sounds a little confrontational.)
Nobody is willing to lobby state and federal lawmakers to make it legal for neighborhoods to band together and put up a community tv system legally anymore. We just bay like good sheep and pay out $55.00 a month Cable TV bill.
Or we use BitTorrent and bypass them entirely. What goes around comes around, and it's nice to see the cable companies get their comeuppance, albeit illegally.
You have a crappy cheapo light rail system, and so you conclude that all light rail systems must be crap? Let me tell you from experience: they aren't. There do exist light rail systems that are faster and cheaper than driving, with reasonable crowds and a polite clientele. You just haven't seen them.
Then look at the Taipei metro system. It goes just about everywhere in the city, funnels massive numbers of people around, and isn't as crowded as the ones in Tokyo. It's smooth and pleasant to use, and generally cheaper than driving. Overcrowding is not a necessary part of a smoothly functioning metro system.
So NASA and the USAF have options to buy launches from SpaceX. Doesn't look like either have committed to any specifics, though.
Check out the SpaceX launch manifest. They have some NASA flights booked, so that NASA can see if they're actually capable of resupplying the space station.
Final fantasy series FF4, FF6, FF7 > FF8, FF9, FF10
I almost agree with you, but I thought FF9 was fantastic -- the core gameplay mechanics were better than FF7 or FF8 (mostly due to the dearth of long-ass summons), the art and music were bright and colorful, the cutscenes were spectacular, and the story was acceptable. Now I kind of want to get it back out and play it some more.
I tried Falcon's Eye, but I found the isometric graphics too clunky for me. As far as I'm concerned, the closest-to-perfect version of Nethack on Linux is the MS-DOS version running on Dosbox with the graphical tiles enabled. I play it pretty often.
Just encrypt the data. It doesn't have to use a one-time pad. It just has to use encryption good enough that cracking it would be implausible. We can do that.
You weren't thinking "Logic of Empire"? The indentured labor thing sounded familiar, and so did the theme of an oppressive system arising almost spontaneously.
Those devices should probably not be trying to view a higher-definition video stream, H.264 or no. In contrast, most ordinary (non-embedded) computers for the past few years have been able to play H.264 pretty easily at near-DVD quality. Mine can, and it's creaky and aging.
Ah, see, there's your problem. Most users of streaming video aren't still stuck on an 900 MHz pentium, and they would actually like to trade some of their spare CPU cycles for better video quality. That may suck for you, but you're in a minority. Hell, my computer is like four years old and underspecced, and it can still play most H.264 videos without an issue.
I've moved to Folding@home now as I hope it will have tangible benefits. My contribution is pretty minor as I don't have the hardware for GPU processing.
If you just have a CPU, then your spare cycles would probably be spent on some BOINC-based projects. I'm especially a fan of Rosetta and uFluids. Rosetta is another protein folding program, but unlike Folding@home it focuses on predicting the final protein structure from the genetic code, rather than simulating the folding process itself. And if you think labs-on-a-chip are cool, uFluids is designing better microfluidic devices with some enormous genetic algorithm. Those are harder to speed up with GPUs, so you could do more good there. The clients are also pretty convenient.
Yup, I also try to include links to svn repositories with my papers these days.
THANK YOU THANK YOU HOLY SHIT THANK YOU! I can't tell you how many times I've wanted that when I was reading a paper. Everybody needs to do this if possible. YES.
Personally, I'm waiting for Intel to come out with Larrabee. It's just a bunch of x86 cores with unusual SIMD instructions and a bit of dedicated graphics hardware, and Intel has a history of making good open source Linux drivers, so it should be a lot easier to support.
Barring that, I'd like to see manufacturers start offering Ubuntu pre-installed on computers. Surely somebody can make a buck from it, even if it's just some little company.
Huh. That happened to me, but I just started it up in some kind of safe mode where it started X without loading unusual drivers, and I uninstalled the nvidia stuff. Pretty easy. No reinstall needed.
If all else fails, you can usually just press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch away from a broken X and get a terminal, then use "sudo apt-get uninstall nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-new" and restart.
That doesn't make sense to me. If you use the lower two bits of a pointer as a type tag in some programming language runtime, it does restrict you somewhat -- you have to allocate all your objects along 4-byte boundaries. But that's a small compromise, and one that people happily make. It doesn't restrict you from using the full 64-bit range.
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To solder BGAs, try a toaster oven. I haven't tried it so I can't vouch for its effectiveness, but others have had some pretty impressive success with the method. Also, please note, ">" is generally read "greater than". What you wanted to use was "<", read "less than". (I have no other disagreement with you, so forgive me if this sounds a little confrontational.)
Nobody is willing to lobby state and federal lawmakers to make it legal for neighborhoods to band together and put up a community tv system legally anymore. We just bay like good sheep and pay out $55.00 a month Cable TV bill.
Or we use BitTorrent and bypass them entirely. What goes around comes around, and it's nice to see the cable companies get their comeuppance, albeit illegally.
You have a crappy cheapo light rail system, and so you conclude that all light rail systems must be crap? Let me tell you from experience: they aren't. There do exist light rail systems that are faster and cheaper than driving, with reasonable crowds and a polite clientele. You just haven't seen them.
Then look at the Taipei metro system. It goes just about everywhere in the city, funnels massive numbers of people around, and isn't as crowded as the ones in Tokyo. It's smooth and pleasant to use, and generally cheaper than driving. Overcrowding is not a necessary part of a smoothly functioning metro system.
Some frequencies go right through clouds beautifully. That's why you see radio telescopes operating on cloudy days.
So NASA and the USAF have options to buy launches from SpaceX. Doesn't look like either have committed to any specifics, though.
Check out the SpaceX launch manifest. They have some NASA flights booked, so that NASA can see if they're actually capable of resupplying the space station.
Final fantasy series FF4, FF6, FF7 > FF8, FF9, FF10
I almost agree with you, but I thought FF9 was fantastic -- the core gameplay mechanics were better than FF7 or FF8 (mostly due to the dearth of long-ass summons), the art and music were bright and colorful, the cutscenes were spectacular, and the story was acceptable. Now I kind of want to get it back out and play it some more.
Be a chaotic character, or forego prayer until you have a chance to sacrifice some random monsters on a co-aligned altar. Problem solved.
I tried Falcon's Eye, but I found the isometric graphics too clunky for me. As far as I'm concerned, the closest-to-perfect version of Nethack on Linux is the MS-DOS version running on Dosbox with the graphical tiles enabled. I play it pretty often.
This is meant to be commercially profitable, thus giving some immunity from the whims of Congress. That was what ultimately killed the Apollo program.
Just encrypt the data. It doesn't have to use a one-time pad. It just has to use encryption good enough that cracking it would be implausible. We can do that.
You weren't thinking "Logic of Empire"? The indentured labor thing sounded familiar, and so did the theme of an oppressive system arising almost spontaneously.
Those devices should probably not be trying to view a higher-definition video stream, H.264 or no. In contrast, most ordinary (non-embedded) computers for the past few years have been able to play H.264 pretty easily at near-DVD quality. Mine can, and it's creaky and aging.
I've noticed that same thing. Does anybody know why this is so? (This has been bugging me for months.)
Ah, see, there's your problem. Most users of streaming video aren't still stuck on an 900 MHz pentium, and they would actually like to trade some of their spare CPU cycles for better video quality. That may suck for you, but you're in a minority. Hell, my computer is like four years old and underspecced, and it can still play most H.264 videos without an issue.
Better than inconsistently formatted HTML, if you want to parse it programmatically.
That's obscene. And in a few years it'll be routine.
But why do the measurements need to be integers?
I've moved to Folding@home now as I hope it will have tangible benefits. My contribution is pretty minor as I don't have the hardware for GPU processing.
If you just have a CPU, then your spare cycles would probably be spent on some BOINC-based projects. I'm especially a fan of Rosetta and uFluids. Rosetta is another protein folding program, but unlike Folding@home it focuses on predicting the final protein structure from the genetic code, rather than simulating the folding process itself. And if you think labs-on-a-chip are cool, uFluids is designing better microfluidic devices with some enormous genetic algorithm. Those are harder to speed up with GPUs, so you could do more good there. The clients are also pretty convenient.
Yup, I also try to include links to svn repositories with my papers these days.
THANK YOU THANK YOU HOLY SHIT THANK YOU! I can't tell you how many times I've wanted that when I was reading a paper. Everybody needs to do this if possible. YES.
Personally, I'm waiting for Intel to come out with Larrabee. It's just a bunch of x86 cores with unusual SIMD instructions and a bit of dedicated graphics hardware, and Intel has a history of making good open source Linux drivers, so it should be a lot easier to support.
Barring that, I'd like to see manufacturers start offering Ubuntu pre-installed on computers. Surely somebody can make a buck from it, even if it's just some little company.
Huh. That happened to me, but I just started it up in some kind of safe mode where it started X without loading unusual drivers, and I uninstalled the nvidia stuff. Pretty easy. No reinstall needed.
If all else fails, you can usually just press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch away from a broken X and get a terminal, then use "sudo apt-get uninstall nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-new" and restart.
Pushing any kind of spaceflight will make it more economical to develop cheaper ways of getting to space. I hope.
That is one of the biggest time sinks on the whole web. It's amazing. Go there.
That doesn't make sense to me. If you use the lower two bits of a pointer as a type tag in some programming language runtime, it does restrict you somewhat -- you have to allocate all your objects along 4-byte boundaries. But that's a small compromise, and one that people happily make. It doesn't restrict you from using the full 64-bit range.