I wish future generations all the luck in sorting through our garbage piles and recycling/salvaging what they can. If anything, this amount of waste - or crap - is a record of us as much as anything.
If this is the case, then archaeology will not have changed much. The most useful findings in archaeology are often those found in the waste piles ("middens") of the site.
Ah but many PDA phones and some of the new Nokia phones (E61, E80) have WiFi. You can run VoIP over a WiFi either at home or through local hotspots supplied by your provider (or anywhere else).
But then you're not running it over 3G, which is what this news is about.
Water is wet. Especially Dasani water, which has been shown to be 15% wetter than the leading brand. Dasani, from Coca Cola. Ain't nothing like the real thing.
'... an Infinera-proposed specification for 100GbE across multiple links...' The current network retailers, mainly cable and DSL dealers, still haven't brought even 10Mbps to most homes.
10Gig+ on the internet is the realm of carriers and huge-volume servers. Cable companies are the customers here. Grandma? Not so much.
When things get that bad, you have to write a letter and mail it. Talking to a clerk at a store or a service rep on the phone is wasting your time (and theirs). A clearly written letter to the company, with a CC to the Better Business Bureau, and this kind of crap goes away fast.
Count the threads in your/usr/bin/top or taskmgr.exe, and if it says more than 4 then you have a use for quad-core.
As others have noted, most of these will not be active processes. Instead, look at "load average" numbers, which show the number of processes that are waiting for CPU time. Roughly speaking, if this number hovers around 4, you'll benefit from a quad-core.
The precedent here is obviously Prima, which publishes strategy guides and charges money for them. Evil bastards. I've been boycotting them, but it doesn't seem to have put them out of business. However, with a big company like EA setting a precedent like this, not only are gamers in trouble, but it's likely to creep out and affect everything. Soon enough, mark my words, companies are going to charge for things like food and housing, and that's when we're really in trouble.
In fact, it may have been so obvious that nobody actually saw the point of publishing something about it
I vaguely recall a talk at a conference several years back where an NVidia guy was talking about the need for floating point framebuffers in hardware. IIRC, he was specifically referring to their use in improving the accuracy of Z-buffers, and it sounded like they were in development at NVidia. I think it was the GDC road tour conference back around 1998. There must be some published material on the subject from around that time.
Because it was during the night, and Indian (from India people) drivers turn off their headlight because - get this - it saves fuel.
In my travels in India, I never witnessed this.
My guess is the head-on collision had to do with one or both drivers going too far into the oncoming lane. Many highways are not divided, and have no center line marking.
Exactly. For instance, think about the tactics and strategies that you learn from RTSG's and other war simulations. Troop formations, ratios of artillery/infantry/support units in an assault, effective defensive positions, etc. Someone who is really good at C&C would certainly be able to carry some of their game experience into a job as a war planner. Similarly, urban combat tactics learned in countless hours of counterstrike are directly applicable in real world scenarios. These game experiences become mental models of problems and solutions that are quite similar to real world situations. Game-trained mental models that happen to be non-combat are easily carried over to real world experience. Heck, a few games of MULE on the Atari 800 would be a great exercise in supply/demand in any college eceonomics class. I'd be thrilled if Spore manages to be one of those games that makes people think differently after shutting down the computer.
We're thinking about throwing Java out. It has the same problems with 'synchronisation' that C has with 'memory allocation'. You can't get it right all the time, it's too hard.
Just curious: What are the proposed alternatives that simplify synchronization?
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Units, units, units!
> (1200 pixels/in * 1200 pixels/in) / (3 * 3 pixels^2 / shape space) = 160,000 [ shape spaces / in^2 ]
> 160,000 shape spaces / in^2* 4 shapes / shape space = 640,000 [ shapes / in^2 ]
> 640,000 shapes / in^2 * (32 shades (6 bits) ** 3) = 20,971,520,000 [ shapes * shades * bits^3 / in^2 ??? ]
My calculation:
640,000 shapes / in^2 * (36 bits / shape[see note]) = 23,040,000 bits / in^2
[4 shapes encodes 2 bits. With 18 bit color, each colored shape represents 18 color bits * 2 shape bits = 36 bits]
I wish future generations all the luck in sorting through our garbage piles and recycling/salvaging what they can. If anything, this amount of waste - or crap - is a record of us as much as anything.
If this is the case, then archaeology will not have changed much. The most useful findings in archaeology are often those found in the waste piles ("middens") of the site.
Ah but many PDA phones and some of the new Nokia phones (E61, E80) have WiFi. You can run VoIP over a WiFi either at home or through local hotspots supplied by your provider (or anywhere else).
But then you're not running it over 3G, which is what this news is about.
Water is wet. Especially Dasani water, which has been shown to be 15% wetter than the leading brand. Dasani, from Coca Cola. Ain't nothing like the real thing.
'... an Infinera-proposed specification for 100GbE across multiple links...' The current network retailers, mainly cable and DSL dealers, still haven't brought even 10Mbps to most homes.
10Gig+ on the internet is the realm of carriers and huge-volume servers. Cable companies are the customers here. Grandma? Not so much.
I suspect so, the list is 14 titles, and they said there were going to be 13 on release...
FTFA is not a launch title.
When things get that bad, you have to write a letter and mail it. Talking to a clerk at a store or a service rep on the phone is wasting your time (and theirs). A clearly written letter to the company, with a CC to the Better Business Bureau, and this kind of crap goes away fast.
Plain
Plane
Cute welsh corgi.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7j8exGJ_7UM
Although the question arises: why would I do such a thing when the audio output just plane sucks on a phone (my phone at least)?
Two words: Headphones. And plain.
Count the threads in your /usr/bin/top or taskmgr.exe, and if it says more than 4 then you have a use for quad-core.
As others have noted, most of these will not be active processes. Instead, look at "load average" numbers, which show the number of processes that are waiting for CPU time. Roughly speaking, if this number hovers around 4, you'll benefit from a quad-core.
This involves giving them my home phone number and my BANK ACCOUNT information. ... Which I refuse to do.
Every time you write a check you're giving out your bank account information.
The precedent here is obviously Prima, which publishes strategy guides and charges money for them. Evil bastards. I've been boycotting them, but it doesn't seem to have put them out of business. However, with a big company like EA setting a precedent like this, not only are gamers in trouble, but it's likely to creep out and affect everything. Soon enough, mark my words, companies are going to charge for things like food and housing, and that's when we're really in trouble.
All it is is an automated way to host video content sent via MMS, something that is pretty trivial to do yourself anyway.
Thus, they have almost certainly applied for a patent on the "technology".
In fact, it may have been so obvious that nobody actually saw the point of publishing something about it
I vaguely recall a talk at a conference several years back where an NVidia guy was talking about the need for floating point framebuffers in hardware. IIRC, he was specifically referring to their use in improving the accuracy of Z-buffers, and it sounded like they were in development at NVidia. I think it was the GDC road tour conference back around 1998. There must be some published material on the subject from around that time.
The winners ... will see their app idea realized as a Mac shareware application and earn royalties on sales.
The losers will see their app idea realized as a Mac shareware application, minus the whole royalty thing.
Because it was during the night, and Indian (from India people) drivers turn off their headlight because - get this - it saves fuel.
In my travels in India, I never witnessed this.
My guess is the head-on collision had to do with one or both drivers going too far into the oncoming lane. Many highways are not divided, and have no center line marking.
Oh, and where oh where is Stairway to Heaven?
Can't you read the sign?
In a nutshell: Interactivity.
Exactly. For instance, think about the tactics and strategies that you learn from RTSG's and other war simulations. Troop formations, ratios of artillery/infantry/support units in an assault, effective defensive positions, etc. Someone who is really good at C&C would certainly be able to carry some of their game experience into a job as a war planner. Similarly, urban combat tactics learned in countless hours of counterstrike are directly applicable in real world scenarios. These game experiences become mental models of problems and solutions that are quite similar to real world situations. Game-trained mental models that happen to be non-combat are easily carried over to real world experience. Heck, a few games of MULE on the Atari 800 would be a great exercise in supply/demand in any college eceonomics class. I'd be thrilled if Spore manages to be one of those games that makes people think differently after shutting down the computer.
That's the number of times it found the word "hack".
the living hell of shelf crap we call "Things Remembered" in the local mall.
I like to call that store: "Things Best Forgotten."
Your equation holds if the acceleration were the constant, net, unidirectional acceleration on an object. It doesn't apply here.
I can't see any drawbacks in dumping nuclear waste into space.
Indeed. Also, accelerating it in a 2km circle over several hours to 23 times the speed of sound is not fraught with peril.
I guess you've never heard of Desk Accessories, have you?
Desk accessories were a hack to workaround the lack of multitasking in early versions of Mac OS. See MultiFinder.
Apple Widgets are a knockoff of Konfabulator because Apple borrowed the idea of writing little desktop applications in Javascript.
We're thinking about throwing Java out. It has the same problems with 'synchronisation' that C has with 'memory allocation'. You can't get it right all the time, it's too hard.
Just curious: What are the proposed alternatives that simplify synchronization?