This all sort of reminds me of the company that was putting out a huge new version of their product, that was taking an incredibly long time. And all their sales people were saying... don't buy yet.. wait... basically hyping the new product. And then when the new product came out they immediately started hyping the next product. No one bought the first product as a result, the company went out of business, and the second version never appeared.
Perhaps I should have explained more... I've seen various algorithms for shape from shading - some are quiet accurate. Given the multiple (and stereoscopic) photographs from different angles, surely it would be possible to construct a 3D model?
IF you double the number the transistors, then the transistors are also half size, which means that the electrons have half the distance to cover, so the speed can double as well. For graphics cards, performance is doubling every 12 months. For CPU chips, performance is doubling every 18 months.
I just bet this is the root of all my problems -- I have not one but two machines all to myself at work. Do I have any systems programmers or operators? Not a one. It's a miracle I can accomplish anything at all, under the circumstances.
And how many people do OS and application vendors employ in order to develop hardware, maintain applications and device drivers, when compared to the number of development teams around the world.
Thanks to simulation we can all tweak ideas without blowing up prototypes.
Look at the history of the combustion and steam engines. In the early days of the automobile there were something like 5000+ innovators all trying to become millionaires. With the steam engine, just about any ironsmith thought he could come up with a better system. In many cases, they would look at another competitor's design (Which would be thicker at some point than the rest of the system), assume that this was a manufacturing defect, build their version, only to have the entire apparatus explode as soon it went into testing.
I rented an apartment in Sunnyvale (North Mathilda Avenue), and the planes were loud there. I could only imagine what the noise intensity would be like at the golf course.
In the article, there is no mention of DRM, but they do mention that Linux would be considered as one of the possible 64-bit operating systems (Linux IA-64?).
The mention of UGA took me by surprise, even though it's three years old, I've never heard it mentioned before.
I've always wondered about that; whether objects/people actually get bounced back to their original stargate, get caught in hyperspace, or just become stargate splatter. Given that stargate's store the energy required to open/maintain a wormhole, and that the logic to determine whether everything has come through the wormhole is trivial, my guess was that a bounce was more likely.
For me, the sound of something bouncing off the iris of a stargate from SG-1, is the most reassuring noise I could imagine hearing if I converted IP traffic to sound.
I dunno - now that I'm a student again, I've stopped using my credit card for food and clothes shopping - it's strictly cash only. And I avoid putting around $200 every month onto my monthly bill. while employed I would pay off the entire lot each month.
One of hardware engineering labs involved etching our own circuits boards before sealing them with resin. Surely, it would simply be a case of opening one of these DVD's enclosed by a similar substance (car wax?) to prevent the degradation?
I did a google search for "plane crashed" "golf course". It becomes immediately obvious that small planes are attracted to golf courses like tornadoes to trailer parks.
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If you look at a Map of Sunnyvale and Mountain View, you'll see that Moffett Federal Air Field is right next to Sunnyvale Municipal Gold Course. So the airfield must be right next to the city boundary. I can't imagine what it must be like when a Hercules transport planes flies over during take off or landing.
I thought that everyone knew that if you kept running the compiler on a buggy piece of code enough times, the compiler would eventually become fed up and bored, stop complaining and allow the source code file to compile properly.
ie me, can somebody please explain in lay persons terms what simulation of quantum processes involves?
From the paper, the quantum computer is based on having a number of atoms isolated from the rest of the system, with each atom being able to encode 0, 1 or unknown. Somehow, they've got to convert a desired algorithm into a combination of laser pulses to set the initial state, set the interdependencies between the Q-bits (or atoms), wait for the system to find the solution and read back the final result. Probably, setting the interdependencies is going to be the hard bit.
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This all sort of reminds me of the company that was putting out a huge new version of their product, that was taking an incredibly long time. And all their sales people were saying... don't buy yet.. wait... basically hyping the new product. And then when the new product came out they immediately started hyping the next product. No one bought the first product as a result, the company went out of business, and the second version never appeared.
That was the Osborne series of computers, the world's first "luggable" computer.
As long as they don't put out 2.5x the heat, that would be great.
what? Don't you realised the potential that a combined laptop/cooking grill/wok with wireless communication could have for outdoor camping?
Didn't someone just invent low fat/calorie donuts?
Perhaps I should have explained more ... I've seen various algorithms for shape from shading - some are quiet accurate. Given the multiple (and stereoscopic) photographs from different angles, surely it would be possible to construct a 3D model?
Once possible application would be to create a time-lapse movie of your greatest surfing moments...
Given all these photographs, and a single point light source at near infinity, has anyone been able to generate a 3D model of the comet?
IF you double the number the transistors, then the transistors are also half size, which means that the electrons have half the distance to cover, so the speed can double as well. For graphics cards, performance is doubling every 12 months. For CPU chips, performance is doubling every 18 months.
I just bet this is the root of all my problems -- I have not one but two machines all to myself at work. Do I have any systems programmers or operators? Not a one. It's a miracle I can accomplish anything at all, under the circumstances.
And how many people do OS and application vendors employ in order to develop hardware, maintain applications and device drivers, when compared to the number of development teams around the world.
Thanks to simulation we can all tweak ideas without blowing up prototypes.
Look at the history of the combustion and steam engines. In the early days of the automobile there were something like 5000+ innovators all trying to become millionaires. With the steam engine, just about any ironsmith thought he could come up with a better system. In many cases, they would look at another competitor's design (Which would be thicker at some point than the rest of the system), assume that this was a manufacturing defect, build their version, only to have the entire apparatus explode as soon it went into testing.
I wish people would quit throwing that word around until we have a true 3D display.
Absolutely. I can't wait to have a laptop that can project an animated 3D holographic shark that jumps out whenever I view a movie trailer.
... I love the crazy steering wheel - anyone know what all those buttons and knobs do?"
More importantly, how long before we can get steering wheel controllers with all those buttons for our favourite console systems?
I rented an apartment in Sunnyvale (North Mathilda Avenue), and the planes were loud there. I could only imagine what the noise intensity would be like at the golf course.
In the article, there is no mention of DRM, but they do mention that Linux would be considered as one of the possible 64-bit operating systems (Linux IA-64?).
The mention of UGA took me by surprise, even though it's three years old, I've never heard it mentioned before.
I've always wondered about that; whether objects/people actually get bounced back to their original stargate, get caught in hyperspace, or just become stargate splatter.
Given that stargate's store the energy required to open/maintain a wormhole, and that the logic to determine whether everything has come through the wormhole is trivial, my guess was that a bounce was more likely.
For me, the sound of something bouncing off the iris of a stargate from SG-1, is the most reassuring noise I could imagine hearing if I converted IP traffic to sound.
I dunno - now that I'm a student again, I've stopped using my credit card for food and clothes shopping - it's strictly cash only. And I avoid putting around $200 every month onto my monthly bill. while employed I would pay off the entire lot each month.
One of hardware engineering labs involved etching our own circuits boards before sealing them with resin. Surely, it would simply be a case of opening one of these DVD's enclosed by a similar substance (car wax?) to prevent the degradation?
I did a google search for "plane crashed" "golf course". It becomes immediately obvious that small planes are attracted to golf courses like tornadoes to trailer parks.
The part that really makes me unhappy is hearing about the fatalities caused by this technology.
If you look at a Map of Sunnyvale and Mountain View, you'll see that Moffett Federal Air Field is right next to Sunnyvale Municipal Gold Course. So the airfield must be right next to the city boundary. I can't imagine what it must be like when a Hercules transport planes flies over during take off or landing.
I thought that everyone knew that if you kept running the compiler on a buggy piece of code enough times, the compiler would eventually become fed up and bored, stop complaining and allow the source code file to compile properly.
I always recommend that users GTFM: Google (for) The ******** Manual.
Sounds like you get basic cable service for free-to-air channels.
ie me, can somebody please explain in lay persons terms what simulation of quantum processes involves?
From the paper, the quantum computer is based on having a number of atoms isolated from the rest of the system, with each atom being able to encode 0, 1 or unknown. Somehow, they've got to convert a desired algorithm into a combination of laser pulses to set the initial state, set the interdependencies between the Q-bits (or atoms), wait for the system to find the solution and read back the final result. Probably, setting the interdependencies is going to be the hard bit.
Anyone else think "retro-reflectum" sounds like some harry potter spell?
Isn't that the style of clothes that the ABBA singers used to wear?