Maybe the mass would change due to natural decay. From this web page, there seem to be five natural stable isotopes, and one naturally radioactive isotope, which can undergo alpha particle decay.
That's the perception that I have got from Apple users (mainly artists). Maybe their college didn't use PC's - or just kept the systems maintained, so they didn't have to worry about system admin issues.
If you see an online website offering cheap memory, then use Google maps to check their location. Usually you will find that they are some sort of back-garden shed operation, who won't know the difference between their GDDR-3 and DDR3. It's not that the memory chips are faulty, it's just they are used for a completely different purpose.
Maybe they just want a clear and simple user interface without having to worry about viruses, worms, bot-nets, service packs and malware, broken registry settings, mismatched device drivers. That would be reason enough to avoid Windows.
For a non-technical person who needs a computer as a tool to do their work (eg. legal, consulting), avoiding the risk of losing the use of their computer for two to three days may very well justify the extra expense of an Apple over a PC, even if they are not doing digital content creation.
You should always factor in the total cost of upgrading and maintenance when buying a computer.
For a desktop (and maybe even laptops) this would include the cost of upgrading the graphics card and installing new disk drives/memory over a period of four/five years.
Commercial and academic budgets require that the number of different bids requested is directly proportional to the cost of the purchase.
Remember that the PC speeds were slower back then, so that even an emulated processor will run faster than the original processor would itself.
Try playing some of the early DOS games such as dragonfly helicopter (an asteroids type games where a helicopter tries to shoot gunboats). There wasn't any timing control so a games designed for a 20Mhz PC runs 100x faster on a 2 GHz processor.
The IBM PC used to have a complete guides to the BIOS and VGA system calls. These covered everything from setting up keyboard interrupts, sending sounds to the speaker (basic frequency tone), setting the video modes and cursor shapes. It was enough for anyone to write their own 256-color games.
I used to program in Atari Basic - having to renumber your lines when you extended a subroutine was a pain in the ass, even with utiity line renumbering functions. A C/C++ compiler is essential these days.
But just to program a console system today requires knowledge of what used to be high-end animation techniques (Scene-graphs, parallel processing/scheduling, texture-mapping, character animation, etc...)
The problem seems to be that one half of the Saudi seems to secretly fund terrorist organisations (or at least their frontline charities) and the other half of the royal offers to provide intelligence reports on the other half if they are provided with Western technology (defence contracts). Both of these are threated with cancellation if their are any investigations into corruption.
Then, just as it looks like Britain could end the dependency on Far East for energy supplies the British prime minister goes over to the oil sheikhs and offers to give them a monopoly on future British nuclear power stations if they would be as kind as to invest in nuclear power in the UK.
3D graphics used to purely software implementations (Phigs). Wolfenstein 3D was software based, along with Quake. This created a demand for consumer based hardware based texture mapping (3DFx Voodoo cards) with vertex, lighting and clipping still done in software. Then those stages went into hardware.
With hard disk drives, the controllers used to specify the track/sector/block directly. Now, it's just an arbitrary scheme to index data, as the number of sectors on each track of the hard disk drive increases with the radius of the track. There's also other functionality as hard disk drive caches (8 Megabytes) to improve performance.
As software modules get larger, eventually they split into separate modules. As hardware evolves much of the functionality of the driver moved into firmware eg. hard disk drives and graphics cards.
The problem is that proprietary OS vendors don't have the resources to write drivers for every piece of consumer hardware. Microsoft relies on the hardware vendors to do this themselves, while the OSS community can do this providing the hardware specifications are freely available.
Anyone else really loses out, because they don't have the financial resources to pay for entire teams of programmers to do this, and the hardware vendors can't afford development kits for every different piece of hardware.
The only alternative solution is for there to be a standard device driver file format - NDISwrapper is one way of achieving this.
Sounds like dual path execution for CPU's. The processor calculates both possible future states of the system, at the same time as the condition is being evaluated. Then the actual result selects the new state of the processor.
By the wording of the article you could say a CPU makes the decision before the result is known.
From the article:
Tuning in on the electrical dialogue between working neurons, they pinpointed the cells of what they called a "free choice" brain circuit that in milliseconds synchronized scattered synapses to settle on a course of action.
I second that - when you think that somewhere like LA is a thousand square miles (20 x 50 miles?) of urban/suburban development and that 60% of that space will be roof tiles, that's 600 square miles of something that could be collecting solar energy.
In the UK there are bus stops, parking meters and hazard warning signs that are LED illuminated and use solar panels to charge batteries.
The only problem would be if someone decided to build a new office block or condominium South of the location. Then they would suffer a loss of revenue - a new meaning to the phrase "Right to light".
What they mean is: We fear that if solar and wind power are allowed to grow, it may create unemployment in the coal-mining and gas extraction industries.
A large solar and wind farm had the capability to replace the energy generated from a small coal mine. , which of course affects the voting pattern.
....decided to buy a personalised number-plate for his daughter Louise-Anne while he was in prison. She got the numberplate LAG-1, which didn't quite make him the brightest light-bulb in the building.
My course certainly didn't give a qualification simply for writing two pieces of software. They were two courseworks out of an entire syllabus of twelve subjects and on average five courseworks for each subject, which required reading research papers as well as the standard textbooks.
This story demonstrates that HungryHobo's argument is not hypothetical but real. Although the story demonstrates that the perpetrators or their descendents will be held accountable. And that they will still suffer financially as nobody will do business with them for ruining the economy.
There was a similar story in the UK - some local residents living in a safe low-crime low-property tax rural coastal village decided to give something back to society by doing voluntary work to clean up the beach. They were warned not to do so, as there was already a person employed by the council to clean the beach, and collecting the driftwood was his perk (having a beach-side garden decorated with driftwood was a desire of many retirees).
. Why does Moviemake need to reboot the machine, its an application, it shouldn't be touching the kernel or low level libraries.
Many windows applications update the device drivers that they need (eg. AOL). Working in Europe, a family friend installed a foreign AOL CD onto their system - to their suprise, half their desktop icons suddenly changed language - AOL had installed whatever DLL's that the installation system had decided were necessary for "compatibility".
Other applications install a quickstart icon on the menubar, which seems to require that a separate small process remains running on standby waiting for the icon to be activated.
It was one of many course modules that the department taught (as well as computer graphics, signal processing, AI, software engineering, hardware engineering, mathematics, statistics, parallel processing, algorithm analysis), which just about every university Computer Science department offers, whether they are red-brick, ivy-league, campus or city-centre.
You seem very defensive about the concept of universities using data auditing to check for cheating. Are you in the business of offshoring course assignments?
Our final year assignments were based upon writing device drivers for bits of hardware (network cards, stepper motors, analog sensors), and writing multi-threaded applications (eg. heart-rate monitor system - thread 1 read data in from the sensor, thread 2 displayed the graph, thread 3 performed critical levels checking/alarm, thread 4 maintained an event log).
Since work could only take place in that room on a dedicated trusted server, and the students had to leave the work in a particular directory, it would be hard for any student to outsource the work.
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Maybe the mass would change due to natural decay. From this web page, there seem to be five natural stable isotopes, and one naturally radioactive isotope, which can undergo alpha particle decay.
That's the perception that I have got from Apple users (mainly artists). Maybe their college didn't use PC's - or just kept the systems maintained, so they didn't have to worry about system admin issues.
Streaming video killed the podcast radio star?
If you see an online website offering cheap memory, then use Google maps to check their location. Usually you will find that they are some sort of back-garden shed operation, who won't know the difference between their GDDR-3 and DDR3. It's not that the memory chips are faulty, it's just they are used for a completely different purpose.
Maybe they just want a clear and simple user interface without having to worry about viruses, worms, bot-nets, service packs and malware, broken registry settings, mismatched device drivers. That would be reason enough to avoid Windows.
For a non-technical person who needs a computer as a tool to do their work (eg. legal, consulting), avoiding the risk of losing the use of their computer for two to three days may very well justify the extra expense of an Apple over a PC, even if they are not doing digital content creation.
You should always factor in the total cost of upgrading and maintenance when buying a computer.
For a desktop (and maybe even laptops) this would include the cost of upgrading the graphics card and installing new disk drives/memory over a period of four/five years.
Commercial and academic budgets require that the number of different bids requested is directly proportional to the cost of the purchase.
Remember that the PC speeds were slower back then, so that even an emulated processor will run faster than the original processor would itself.
Try playing some of the early DOS games such as dragonfly helicopter (an asteroids type games where a helicopter tries to shoot gunboats). There wasn't any timing control so a games designed for a 20Mhz PC runs 100x faster on a 2 GHz processor.
The IBM PC used to have a complete guides to the BIOS and VGA system calls. These covered everything from setting up keyboard interrupts, sending sounds to the speaker (basic frequency tone), setting the video modes and cursor shapes. It was enough for anyone to write their own 256-color games.
I used to program in Atari Basic - having to renumber your lines when you extended a subroutine was a pain in the ass, even with utiity line renumbering functions. A C/C++ compiler is essential these days.
But just to program a console system today requires knowledge of what used to be high-end animation techniques (Scene-graphs, parallel processing/scheduling, texture-mapping, character animation, etc...)
www.wikileaks.org, www.infowars.net, www.liveleak.com?
The problem seems to be that one half of the Saudi seems to secretly fund terrorist organisations (or at least their frontline charities) and the other half of the royal offers to provide intelligence reports on the other half if they are provided with Western technology (defence contracts). Both of these are threated with cancellation if their are any investigations into corruption.
Then, just as it looks like Britain could end the dependency on Far East for energy supplies the British prime minister goes over to the oil sheikhs and offers to give them a monopoly on future British nuclear power stations if they would be as kind as to invest in nuclear power in the UK.
They better ban Sony Vaio laptops as well by that reasoning :)
3D graphics used to purely software implementations (Phigs). Wolfenstein 3D was software based, along with Quake. This created a demand for consumer based hardware based texture mapping (3DFx Voodoo cards) with vertex, lighting and clipping still done in software. Then those stages went into hardware.
With hard disk drives, the controllers used to specify the track/sector/block directly. Now, it's just an arbitrary scheme to index data, as the number of sectors on each track of the hard disk drive increases with the radius of the track.
There's also other functionality as hard disk drive caches (8 Megabytes) to improve performance.
As software modules get larger, eventually they split into separate modules. As hardware evolves much of the functionality of the driver moved into firmware eg. hard disk drives and graphics cards.
The problem is that proprietary OS vendors don't have the resources to write drivers for every piece of consumer hardware. Microsoft relies on the hardware vendors to do this themselves, while the OSS community can do this providing the hardware specifications are freely available.
Anyone else really loses out, because they don't have the financial resources to pay for entire teams of programmers to do this, and the hardware vendors can't afford development kits for every different piece of hardware.
The only alternative solution is for there to be a standard device driver file format - NDISwrapper is one way of achieving this.
Sounds like dual path execution for CPU's. The processor calculates both possible future states of the system, at the same time as the condition is being evaluated. Then the actual result selects the new state of the processor.
By the wording of the article you could say a CPU makes the decision before the result is known.
From the article:
Tuning in on the electrical dialogue between working neurons, they pinpointed the cells of what they called a "free choice" brain circuit that in milliseconds synchronized scattered synapses to settle on a course of action.
I second that - when you think that somewhere like LA is a thousand square miles (20 x 50 miles?) of urban/suburban development and that 60% of that space will be roof tiles, that's 600 square miles of something that could be collecting solar energy.
In the UK there are bus stops, parking meters and hazard warning signs that are LED illuminated and use solar panels to charge batteries.
The only problem would be if someone decided to build a new office block or condominium South of the location. Then they would suffer a loss of revenue - a new meaning to the phrase "Right to light".
Sharp has a factory roof with solar panels. The system generates 18 megawatts, which is 5% of the plants energy needs.
Reminds me of this video on a charity called Common Purpose.
What they mean is: We fear that if solar and wind power are allowed to grow, it may create unemployment in the coal-mining and gas extraction industries.
A large solar and wind farm had the capability to replace the energy generated from a small coal mine. , which of course affects the voting pattern.
....decided to buy a personalised number-plate for his daughter Louise-Anne while he was in prison. She got the numberplate LAG-1, which didn't quite make him the brightest light-bulb in the building.
My course certainly didn't give a qualification simply for writing two pieces of software. They were two courseworks out of an entire syllabus of twelve subjects and on average five courseworks for each subject, which required reading research papers as well as the standard textbooks.
This story demonstrates that HungryHobo's argument is not hypothetical but real. Although the story demonstrates that the perpetrators or their descendents will be held accountable. And that they will still suffer financially as nobody will do business with them for ruining the economy.
There was a similar story in the UK - some local residents living in a safe low-crime low-property tax rural coastal village decided to give something back to society by doing voluntary work to clean up the beach. They were warned not to do so, as there was already a person employed by the council to clean the beach, and collecting the driftwood was his perk (having a beach-side garden decorated with driftwood was a desire of many retirees).
The contamination of a segment of Italy's Mozzarella cheese with dioxin in areas where the mafia have been dumping toxic waste
. Why does Moviemake need to reboot the machine, its an application, it shouldn't be touching the kernel or low level libraries.
Many windows applications update the device drivers that they need (eg. AOL). Working in Europe, a family friend installed a foreign AOL CD onto their system - to their suprise, half their desktop icons suddenly changed language - AOL had installed whatever DLL's that the installation system had decided were necessary for "compatibility".
Other applications install a quickstart icon on the menubar, which seems to require that a separate small process remains running on standby waiting for the icon to be activated.
It was one of many course modules that the department taught (as well as computer graphics, signal processing, AI, software engineering, hardware engineering, mathematics, statistics, parallel processing, algorithm analysis), which just about every university Computer Science department offers, whether they are red-brick, ivy-league, campus or city-centre.
You seem very defensive about the concept of universities using data auditing to check for cheating. Are you in the business of offshoring course assignments?
Our final year assignments were based upon writing device drivers for bits of hardware (network cards, stepper motors, analog sensors), and writing multi-threaded applications (eg. heart-rate monitor system - thread 1 read data in from the sensor, thread 2 displayed the graph, thread 3 performed critical levels checking/alarm, thread 4 maintained an event log).
Since work could only take place in that room on a dedicated trusted server, and the students had to leave the work in a particular directory, it would be hard for any student to outsource the work.