When people first heard the WotW broadcast, they thought it was a real Martian invasion. There was widespread panic (mainly I think because everyone trusted what they heard on the radio, thankfully we're all far more cynical now), probably because of stunts like that, but a lot can be put down to marketing spin as well I suppose.
But just how much panic was there really? Reports of suicides and heart attacks proved unfounded, and reappraisals of other "evidence" of the panic show it to have been much less than many have perceived it over the last sixty-two years. Media hype seems to be the real monster here, that and the age old American love for "urban legends."
Even the evidence of the 40% increase in telephone calls to Law Enforcement agencies and the local media in New Jersey that night fails to differentiate the types of calls in percentages. Some people simply wanted to know where they could donate blood, some to know where to find casualty lists, some realized the show was a dramatization but were furious that such a realistic production was allowed on the air, and still others sought to congratulate CBS on such a fantastic Halloween program.
Within the processor the Von Neumann architecture is already almost gone. Hardly a CPU still has a unified instruction/data cache. Or do you actually believe that you can't programm a non- Von Neuman computer?
Fine ashes from the eruption were carried by upper level winds as far away as New York City. The explosion was heard more than 3000 miles away. Volcanic dust blew into the upper atmosphere affecting incoming solar radiation and the earth's weather for several years.
No, You're not flame baiting. You're telling an uncomfortable truth. Europeans have a LONG history of coming up with endless new ways to justify killing and imprisoning each other and stealing the property of people whom they place in group categories invented by them for this purpose.
Virginia Tech bought all those G5s last summer because at the time they were available and less expensive than other 64-bit architectures. The AMD 64 wasn't available in quantity. They also received quite a bit of consideration from Apple sweetening the deal.
Yeah, and the G5 wasn't the first 64-bit desktop, because the Opteron was available in numbers months before. No, wait...
Well, the mother-node sure needs a big pipe, but the clients probably don't. Still, the data you send back (1 >5 MegaPixel picture @ 48 bit) will likely be much smaller than the data you'll need to compute it (detailed models + many detailed textures).
That still leaves your claim: "The problem is, in actual use Huffman coding is crap. Why? Because real data isn't random, it doesn't cover the entire space of possible data. So useful compression algorithms take advantage of the non-randomness of actual data, to do significantly better than Huffman". Which is just plain wrong. Any form of compression, including Huffman, only works because "real data isn't random".
One lawsuit against a company vs. dozens against people who may have used a P2P app - and you think the US lost the #1 spot in "being litigious"? That propels the US right at the top rank in "making up stupid excuses why we are not so bad after all".
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See, there is a bad side to all good things ;-)
This article (in German) says that you can make cheap, flexible electronics with this stuff.
Maybe Mike's moonlighting?
Well, it's almost on time for the 10th anniversary of the PowerMac.
Actually, most of the panic was just marketing spin.
So you propose Terrorism.
Within the processor the Von Neumann architecture is already almost gone. Hardly a CPU still has a unified instruction/data cache. Or do you actually believe that you can't programm a non- Von Neuman computer?
Actually you're a Banana Republic, you are being ruled by a Banana.
Would you please tell whomever you elect that you made him President of the US, not King of the World?
It was mostly a quip at your comment "Ash from that eruption was discovered as far away as Nebraska!"
Yeah, might as well cite anything Bush says. At least that would be good for a laugh.
Fine ashes from the eruption were carried by upper level winds as far away as New York City. The explosion was heard more than 3000 miles away. Volcanic dust blew into the upper atmosphere affecting incoming solar radiation and the earth's weather for several years.
Yeah, quite unlike the US.
Thank Apple for FreeBSD
Yeah, and the G5 wasn't the first 64-bit desktop, because the Opteron was available in numbers months before. No, wait ...
As opposed to one ass-kicked cheap production environment?
Well, the mother-node sure needs a big pipe, but the clients probably don't. Still, the data you send back (1 >5 MegaPixel picture @ 48 bit) will likely be much smaller than the data you'll need to compute it (detailed models + many detailed textures).
Why would they sue anybody who pays the levy?
Cut him some slack, he just wrote minutes instead of milliseconds ;-)
That still leaves your claim: "The problem is, in actual use Huffman coding is crap. Why? Because real data isn't random, it doesn't cover the entire space of possible data. So useful compression algorithms take advantage of the non-randomness of actual data, to do significantly better than Huffman". Which is just plain wrong. Any form of compression, including Huffman, only works because "real data isn't random".
Still pissed the French invaded you?
You mean like the "War on Terrorism" is just another case of the US trying to impose its laws on non-American citizens?
Yeah, better yet, make the iTMS available outside the US! Maybe then they would care.
One lawsuit against a company vs. dozens against people who may have used a P2P app - and you think the US lost the #1 spot in "being litigious"? That propels the US right at the top rank in "making up stupid excuses why we are not so bad after all".
Errm, no. The French that invaded Britain hated those who stayed at home, where the weather and food was better.