Ebola isn't exactly as common as a cold you know. In fact it's a great example of a disease that wipes out its own hosts too quickly to spread very well. The only saving grace of Ebola is that it's extremely infectious, so over small and tightly knit populations it is devastating. It's the kind of diesease where the traders will come to a village for the next month's trade and find it dead, not the kind where you wipe out 3/4 of Europe.
There are already Chinese made knockoff ia86 processors. They're all slow and crappy, although cheap. They have not been a major threat to Intel or AMD yet, and until we see some hard numbers on this new one, I'm not writing any obits for the mainstream processor industry.
Because you're in a noisy environment where it would be impossible to hold a regular phone conversation but need to send a message to a friend? Or you're in an environment where it would be rude to talk on your cell phone (subway/bus/airplane/etc...) but need to send a message.
Sure if you both have smartphones with data plans you can send an email or IM message instead, but most people have dumbphones with no real data plan, so SMS is really the only option. That's why providers can get away with charging an arm and a leg for it.
Have you tried Sins of a Solar Empire? Another game you should probably try is Kohan (although it's pretty old by now). Both are RTSes that deemphasize the clicking and put a lot more emphasis on securing the ground you capture and exploiting its resources.
At 18 she's going to be washed up as a Gymnast. It's not going to be a problem for the next Olympics.
I wonder how young they started the training for these girls? The rules were enacted in 1997, so it's actually possible they hand picked them and started training before the rules change disqualified them. Otherwise it seems pretty strange to hand pick competitors that you know won't be legal for the event they're competing in. Maybe they knew the IOC well enough to know that it wouldn't matter.
It looks to me like the study didn't really measure the amount of IPv6 traffic on the internet because it only looked for native IPv6 packets, which are extremely rare (as they have noticed) because very very few ISPs implement IPv6. Rather, most people using it are tunneling over IPv4 through tunnel brokers.
Of course since most people realize that tunnel brokers are basically a waste of time, I wouldn't be surprised if the total IPv6 traffic was tiny even if you counted the tunneled stuff.
We're in for some painful years shortly where IPv4 addresses are nearly completely out and people have to take crash courses in IPv6. Luckily, most hardware and OSes these days have IPv6 support, so a switchover is possible, but both application developers and ISPs are dragging their heels and making the problem worse.
Of course running out of addresses doesn't mean the internet breaks outright. People who are already on it will still be able to connect and get where they need to go. It's just new people trying to connect that are going to be out of luck. People on dynamic IP addresses (PPPoE, DHCP) might find themselves waiting and waiting for an IP address when they connect, because their ISP was not able to provision more to handle their growth. New servers will have the biggest problem, you'll probably see a market spring up for second hand IP addresses for people who don't want to wait in line like everybody else.
Solution looking for a problem? The problem seems obvious: most estimates of when we run out of IPv4 addresses place it sometime around 2012, which isn't that far away. Even with NAT in place we're still running out of address space.
You might be surprised how much consumer gear supports IPv6 these days. Not that it matters since it's almost impossible to find an ISP who will deal with IPv6. I have no interest in setting up a useless tunnel just to say I'm using IPv6, so until I can get an address from my ISP I'm not switching.
I was going to buy his games based on the article alone until I looked at them and discovered that they were just Princess Maker clones. They're not really my cup of tea.
I saw a TV special on raw food people once. It was a house with like 20 hippies living in it. The one guy was all gung ho about "raw" food and was going on and on about how cooking destroys the food man, but the rest of the people (in the background) were clearly not enamored with his leafy vegetable "burrito". The guy's attitude was so "holier than thou" that I wanted to smack him in the mouth. Seriously, it was like the guy who became a Vegan to one-up his vegetarian friends, but then moved in with a bunch of other Vegans and had to figure out a way to one-up them.
I wouldn't say they had momentum. There was some interest, but most everybody said "show me the money", and then the Physics enabled stuff came out and it was decidedly underwhelming, or worse, no better than what you could do on the CPU with most games (which were bottlenecked by the graphics card anyway). Since this will slow down the graphics card, I'm having trouble seeing the advantage unless you have a grossly overpowered graphics card (Quad GTX 280s?) hooked up to a somewhat anemic CPU.
That's probably a better lesson for a Politician than a Soldier. Once the solders are there you don't want them pulling punches. That sort of behavior just gets them killed.
I do think that killing without being at risk yourself is new and different.
For the Air Force?!? Sure, there's always a remote chance of getting hit by a shoulder fired missile, but that's extremely rare for F16 pilots. It's just like the article says, you fly to a certain point, press a button, and you're gone before it even hits the ground.
You appear to have half of the problem worked out in the form of an inexpensive ebook reader, but what are your plans for getting material to put on those readers? As I am sure you are well aware, the Public Domain is being strangled by changes to copyright law. Do you have a source of textbook material suitable for these children that can be given away for free? Presumably these poor communities can't afford the typical $20-$50/book fees for such material.
Trying to get a TCP stack working on a 1.25Mhz 8 bit machine is no mean feat. I'd wager that you're likely to add more than $12 worth of parts to it before you get anything resembling a web browser (even a crappy text only one running at NTSC resolution) working, especially one that is optimized for moving a handful of sprites around the screen instead of displaying text.
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Ebola isn't exactly as common as a cold you know. In fact it's a great example of a disease that wipes out its own hosts too quickly to spread very well. The only saving grace of Ebola is that it's extremely infectious, so over small and tightly knit populations it is devastating. It's the kind of diesease where the traders will come to a village for the next month's trade and find it dead, not the kind where you wipe out 3/4 of Europe.
There are already Chinese made knockoff ia86 processors. They're all slow and crappy, although cheap. They have not been a major threat to Intel or AMD yet, and until we see some hard numbers on this new one, I'm not writing any obits for the mainstream processor industry.
You could just pirate it, that way you would avoid the DRM problems.
Because you're in a noisy environment where it would be impossible to hold a regular phone conversation but need to send a message to a friend? Or you're in an environment where it would be rude to talk on your cell phone (subway/bus/airplane/etc...) but need to send a message.
Sure if you both have smartphones with data plans you can send an email or IM message instead, but most people have dumbphones with no real data plan, so SMS is really the only option. That's why providers can get away with charging an arm and a leg for it.
I don't mind teaching Creationism in the philosophy class, but it's very out of place in a Biology class.
This is so sexist, vpilf.com doesn't have a single picture of Dick Cheney.
New MMO startup is completely full of itself, wants to sell you overpriced hardware.
It's clear that this is a game, they're just targeting it to people who normally sneer at "gamers", and who have a lot of disposable income.
Have you tried Sins of a Solar Empire? Another game you should probably try is Kohan (although it's pretty old by now). Both are RTSes that deemphasize the clicking and put a lot more emphasis on securing the ground you capture and exploiting its resources.
She guaranteed me that sleeping with other women would have the opposite effect on my longevity.
At 18 she's going to be washed up as a Gymnast. It's not going to be a problem for the next Olympics.
I wonder how young they started the training for these girls? The rules were enacted in 1997, so it's actually possible they hand picked them and started training before the rules change disqualified them. Otherwise it seems pretty strange to hand pick competitors that you know won't be legal for the event they're competing in. Maybe they knew the IOC well enough to know that it wouldn't matter.
The IOC has credibility? Anyway, if they were to revisit this at all (and there's no guarantee) it won't be until well after the games are over.
It looks to me like the study didn't really measure the amount of IPv6 traffic on the internet because it only looked for native IPv6 packets, which are extremely rare (as they have noticed) because very very few ISPs implement IPv6. Rather, most people using it are tunneling over IPv4 through tunnel brokers.
Of course since most people realize that tunnel brokers are basically a waste of time, I wouldn't be surprised if the total IPv6 traffic was tiny even if you counted the tunneled stuff.
We're in for some painful years shortly where IPv4 addresses are nearly completely out and people have to take crash courses in IPv6. Luckily, most hardware and OSes these days have IPv6 support, so a switchover is possible, but both application developers and ISPs are dragging their heels and making the problem worse.
Of course running out of addresses doesn't mean the internet breaks outright. People who are already on it will still be able to connect and get where they need to go. It's just new people trying to connect that are going to be out of luck. People on dynamic IP addresses (PPPoE, DHCP) might find themselves waiting and waiting for an IP address when they connect, because their ISP was not able to provision more to handle their growth. New servers will have the biggest problem, you'll probably see a market spring up for second hand IP addresses for people who don't want to wait in line like everybody else.
Solution looking for a problem? The problem seems obvious: most estimates of when we run out of IPv4 addresses place it sometime around 2012, which isn't that far away. Even with NAT in place we're still running out of address space.
You might be surprised how much consumer gear supports IPv6 these days. Not that it matters since it's almost impossible to find an ISP who will deal with IPv6. I have no interest in setting up a useless tunnel just to say I'm using IPv6, so until I can get an address from my ISP I'm not switching.
Yeah, I'm sure that one had nothing to do with being politically charged...
I was going to buy his games based on the article alone until I looked at them and discovered that they were just Princess Maker clones. They're not really my cup of tea.
I saw a TV special on raw food people once. It was a house with like 20 hippies living in it. The one guy was all gung ho about "raw" food and was going on and on about how cooking destroys the food man, but the rest of the people (in the background) were clearly not enamored with his leafy vegetable "burrito". The guy's attitude was so "holier than thou" that I wanted to smack him in the mouth. Seriously, it was like the guy who became a Vegan to one-up his vegetarian friends, but then moved in with a bunch of other Vegans and had to figure out a way to one-up them.
Of course it's the site license system that came around and bit VMWare in the ass here.
If you want Star Wars there's no need to wait, just sign up for Star Wars Galaxies today. Warning: Gameplay may change suddenly.
According to the blurb under the videos, they're "100% in-game footage".
I wouldn't say they had momentum. There was some interest, but most everybody said "show me the money", and then the Physics enabled stuff came out and it was decidedly underwhelming, or worse, no better than what you could do on the CPU with most games (which were bottlenecked by the graphics card anyway). Since this will slow down the graphics card, I'm having trouble seeing the advantage unless you have a grossly overpowered graphics card (Quad GTX 280s?) hooked up to a somewhat anemic CPU.
That's probably a better lesson for a Politician than a Soldier. Once the solders are there you don't want them pulling punches. That sort of behavior just gets them killed.
For the Air Force?!? Sure, there's always a remote chance of getting hit by a shoulder fired missile, but that's extremely rare for F16 pilots. It's just like the article says, you fly to a certain point, press a button, and you're gone before it even hits the ground.
You appear to have half of the problem worked out in the form of an inexpensive ebook reader, but what are your plans for getting material to put on those readers? As I am sure you are well aware, the Public Domain is being strangled by changes to copyright law. Do you have a source of textbook material suitable for these children that can be given away for free? Presumably these poor communities can't afford the typical $20-$50/book fees for such material.
Trying to get a TCP stack working on a 1.25Mhz 8 bit machine is no mean feat. I'd wager that you're likely to add more than $12 worth of parts to it before you get anything resembling a web browser (even a crappy text only one running at NTSC resolution) working, especially one that is optimized for moving a handful of sprites around the screen instead of displaying text.