Except that in the news this morning (here in Japan) what they were saying is that there's no sign of supporting infrastructure for it to be a communications satellite.
Unfortunately, I didn't understand the conclusion (my Japanese isn't that good yet.
Exactly, thus the MHz/mW phrase. Why use more electrical power than you need to? If you need more computing power, then build a bigger CPU using the same technology. It will still be more efficient, and that's the point: efficiency.
Yes. I remember when it first started here. I learned very fast to watch the url in the status bar (then somebody did a mouseover attack, but/. quickly learned to filter that out). 11 years and it still gives me the creeps.
While I'm sure the lighting does have an effect, that's not the reason games such as The Sims wouldn't be as valuable. It's the level of immersion and the (virtual) struggle for survival in violent games that makes them valuable.
Now, get subtle clues into non-violent games and make the player really feel that failure matters, and then they might be more valuable.
What about the other direction? A lot of these people you are complaining about may never have had any of these skills, and it's only through violent games that they have learned the logic of tactics, teamwork, command and control. Also, anybody that has learned tactics and teamwork is halfway to learning other social skills. Social skills are nothing more than tactics necessary to navigating the minefield of human interaction.
Not only that, but you contradict yourself. You say "they dull your sense of logic and reason", and then talk about "the inexorable logic of tactic, teamwork, command and control" being a central part of those people's language, all of which require logic and reason.
I think you need to go back and re-think your argument, and be more precise in your language.
In Japan, paper books don't pose a privacy problem: when you buy a book, whether it's a raunchy novel or an English textbook, the store clerk wraps it in a nice paper cover, hiding the nature of the book. At most, you can determine size of the book and the shop it was bought at.
The reason for the "failed planet" that produced the asteroid belt is probably Jupiter. Jupiter's gravity is strong enough to pull material out of asteroid belt on a regular basis. If you combined all of the material in the asteroid belt, the resulting "planet" would be less massive than Mercury.
Less than Mercury, plus whatever Jupiter has pulled out of the asteroid belt since the "breakup".
My point is that, assuming your statement is correct (I myself don't doubt it), the asteroid belt has been shrinking for a long time (probably as an exponential decay). How long ago did the belt form, and what size was it then?
Of course, there's also the question of if the belt was ever anything other than a collection of loose rocks left over from our dust cloud.
The GPL wouldn't be necessary because those that took the code and closed it off wouldn't have any legal standing against those that continued to distribute the free versions or those that re-freed the closed off portions (by reverse engineering etc).
Like any strategy game, you have to think several moves ahead.
Actually, the Japanese title is "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi". Also, "Spirited Away" and "Kamikakushi" are reasonable translations of each other. As a translation of the title, "The Spiriting Away of Sen and Chihiro" is a bit of a mouthful for us poor westerners.
As a side explanation, "Sen" another reading for the character used for the "Chi" in "Chihiro" (the one character that stayed on the contract when Yubaba took the others).
Hanging from my fingertips is easy (~75kg, ~165lb). Although I doubt I could catch myself that way, somebody with stronger forearms very well might be able to, depending on how far they'd fallen.
You're doing something wrong. You start seeing a bell shape at N=3 (2 with a little stretch of the imagination). I don't remember the details (it's been a while...), but the equation for the distribution of results for a particular N involved a series of nCr functions with alternating +/- (ie, -1**N) and invalid nCr parameters (I think invalid = 0). I suppose I could work it out again: be a nice break from studying Japanese:)
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Instead of weighting the tips, extend the fins backwards or out with tape/paper. All that's needed is for the center of area to be behind the center of gravity.
Australia has at least three options: electricly heated stored water, gas heated stored water and gas heated on-demand water. In Canada (well, Alberta, anyway), stored hot water is usually gas, as is the furnace (with an electic fan). New Zealand is just cold and damp:P Actually, elecric stored and (in older houses) wetbacks: pipe running from (usually electrical) hot water tank to the nearest fireplace. I don't remember seeing any gas stoves in NZ (they exist, though), let alone gas hot water.
Antarctica is growing? That implies that sea levels should be going down (more water trapped on land). Now, wether Antarctica's growth is enough to offset the shrinkage of ice in other areas is another matter (north pole is irrelevant: not enough landmass there to significantly affect sea levels). Of course, if the world warms up enough for Antarctica's ice to shrink, we'll definitely be in trouble water-wise.
This looks to be a "wait and see" thing.
Also, glaciers might be melting faster than Antarctica's ice is growing, so the short term will see sea levels rising anyway. Another "wait and see", I guess.
what's your problem? Earth's orbital velocity is ~29.8km/s (thus Earth travels though space at 29.8km/s relative to the sun). those plates are travelling at 34km/s. is 34km/s not faster than 29.8km/s?
That said, that's significantly slower than Earth's `orbital' velocity around the center of the galaxy: 300km/s (yes, 0.1% c) assuming the sun is 100000 ly from the center of the galaxy and it takes 100 millioin years to go complete an orbit.
That 95% is only for the desktop. It's a lot lower for servers (though I don't know how much and won't pull any figures out:). Most servers are connected to some serious bandwidth and/or have access to some very interesting information. Which is the more desirable target? A well connected server or a desktop behind a "slow" connection (ie, less than 512kb upstream)? Sure, getting ahold of a lot of desktops will outdo a single server when it comes to DOS attacks or spamming, but then controlling them becomes an issue.
Also, windows desktops tend to get turned off a lot. Linux (etc) desktops tend to get left on 24/7 (and generally better at networking anyway), so they would make a more desirable zombie machine, even if they only make up 5% of the "market".
Market share is not the reason for the relative lack of *nix viruses/worms/etc because there are enough of them out there to make a successful virus very much worth the effort. It's the shere difficulty of creating a successful virus for *nix that leads to the lack of *nix viruses etc.
Security has been on the minds of *nix developers longer than (networked, anyway) Windows has existed. UNIX might be 30+ year old tech, but that's 30+ years of evolution, including at least 15 of security audits (for the userland stuff) and new stuff tends to be developed with security in mind (sure, holes get in, but they also tend to get fixed quickly). I believe that is the real reason for the dearth of *nix viruses: they can only survive in virtual petri dishes; they just don't get far in the wild anymore. Sure the was the lion worm back in 2000, but it died out rather quickly (unlike those IIS worms of the same time that are still going).
vising and lighting quake (or any other fps) maps would be one application close to many/.ers' hearts. Of course, the tools themselves have to support threading (qfvis and qflight from quakeforge do), but that's just a minor detail:)
Instead of taking a day to compile a complex map, it could be done in the time it takes to brew a jug of coffee:)
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Except that in the news this morning (here in Japan) what they were saying is that there's no sign of supporting infrastructure for it to be a communications satellite.
Unfortunately, I didn't understand the conclusion (my Japanese isn't that good yet.
Exactly, thus the MHz/mW phrase. Why use more electrical power than you need to? If you need more computing power, then build a bigger CPU using the same technology. It will still be more efficient, and that's the point: efficiency.
Yes. I remember when it first started here. I learned very fast to watch the url in the status bar (then somebody did a mouseover attack, but /. quickly learned to filter that out). 11 years and it still gives me the creeps.
Nothing really changes around here.
While I'm sure the lighting does have an effect, that's not the reason games such as The Sims wouldn't be as valuable. It's the level of immersion and the (virtual) struggle for survival in violent games that makes them valuable.
Now, get subtle clues into non-violent games and make the player really feel that failure matters, and then they might be more valuable.
What about the other direction? A lot of these people you are complaining about may never have had any of these skills, and it's only through violent games that they have learned the logic of tactics, teamwork, command and control. Also, anybody that has learned tactics and teamwork is halfway to learning other social skills. Social skills are nothing more than tactics necessary to navigating the minefield of human interaction.
Not only that, but you contradict yourself. You say "they dull your sense of logic and reason", and then talk about "the inexorable logic of tactic, teamwork, command and control" being a central part of those people's language, all of which require logic and reason.
I think you need to go back and re-think your argument, and be more precise in your language.
In Japan, paper books don't pose a privacy problem: when you buy a book, whether it's a raunchy novel or an English textbook, the store clerk wraps it in a nice paper cover, hiding the nature of the book. At most, you can determine size of the book and the shop it was bought at.
The reason for the "failed planet" that produced the asteroid belt is probably Jupiter. Jupiter's gravity is strong enough to pull material out of asteroid belt on a regular basis. If you combined all of the material in the asteroid belt, the resulting "planet" would be less massive than Mercury.
Less than Mercury, plus whatever Jupiter has pulled out of the asteroid belt since the "breakup".
My point is that, assuming your statement is correct (I myself don't doubt it), the asteroid belt has been shrinking for a long time (probably as an exponential decay). How long ago did the belt form, and what size was it then?
Of course, there's also the question of if the belt was ever anything other than a collection of loose rocks left over from our dust cloud.
The GPL wouldn't be necessary because those that took the code and closed it off wouldn't have any legal standing against those that continued to distribute the free versions or those that re-freed the closed off portions (by reverse engineering etc).
Like any strategy game, you have to think several moves ahead.
Actually, the Japanese title is "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi". Also, "Spirited Away" and "Kamikakushi" are reasonable translations of each other. As a translation of the title, "The Spiriting Away of Sen and Chihiro" is a bit of a mouthful for us poor westerners.
As a side explanation, "Sen" another reading for the character used for the "Chi" in "Chihiro" (the one character that stayed on the contract when Yubaba took the others).
Geez, I despise romaji...
The problem is, Comic Sans is the only font I know of that has a hand-written style 'a'. ie, pretty much a c with a stick.
Hanging from my fingertips is easy (~75kg, ~165lb). Although I doubt I could catch myself that way, somebody with stronger forearms very well might be able to, depending on how far they'd fallen.
Without copyright, there would be no need for the GPL.
No, the question was 6 times 9. But in base 13.
You're doing something wrong. You start seeing a bell shape at N=3 (2 with a little stretch of the imagination). I don't remember the details (it's been a while...), but the equation for the distribution of results for a particular N involved a series of nCr functions with alternating +/- (ie, -1**N) and invalid nCr parameters (I think invalid = 0). I suppose I could work it out again: be a nice break from studying Japanese :)
Instead of weighting the tips, extend the fins backwards or out with tape/paper. All that's needed is for the center of area to be behind the center of gravity.
Australia has at least three options: electricly heated stored water, gas heated stored water and gas heated on-demand water. In Canada (well, Alberta, anyway), stored hot water is usually gas, as is the furnace (with an electic fan). New Zealand is just cold and damp :P Actually, elecric stored and (in older houses) wetbacks: pipe running from (usually electrical) hot water tank to the nearest fireplace. I don't remember seeing any gas stoves in NZ (they exist, though), let alone gas hot water.
nobody swipes the book to extract Leonardo's DNA to produce an evil clone. No telling what he'll come up with to destroy the world.
Antarctica is growing? That implies that sea levels should be going down (more water trapped on land). Now, wether Antarctica's growth is enough to offset the shrinkage of ice in other areas is another matter (north pole is irrelevant: not enough landmass there to significantly affect sea levels). Of course, if the world warms up enough for Antarctica's ice to shrink, we'll definitely be in trouble water-wise.
This looks to be a "wait and see" thing.
Also, glaciers might be melting faster than Antarctica's ice is growing, so the short term will see sea levels rising anyway. Another "wait and see", I guess.
If your hair's silvery, what's mine, grasshopper? :)
what's your problem? Earth's orbital velocity is ~29.8km/s (thus Earth travels though space at 29.8km/s relative to the sun). those plates are travelling at 34km/s. is 34km/s not faster than 29.8km/s?
That said, that's significantly slower than Earth's `orbital' velocity around the center of the galaxy: 300km/s (yes, 0.1% c) assuming the sun is 100000 ly from the center of the galaxy and it takes 100 millioin years to go complete an orbit.
and the monthly fortnight long night.
actually, that would be: the browser, the fonts auto-select.
Also, windows desktops tend to get turned off a lot. Linux (etc) desktops tend to get left on 24/7 (and generally better at networking anyway), so they would make a more desirable zombie machine, even if they only make up 5% of the "market".
Market share is not the reason for the relative lack of *nix viruses/worms/etc because there are enough of them out there to make a successful virus very much worth the effort. It's the shere difficulty of creating a successful virus for *nix that leads to the lack of *nix viruses etc.
Security has been on the minds of *nix developers longer than (networked, anyway) Windows has existed. UNIX might be 30+ year old tech, but that's 30+ years of evolution, including at least 15 of security audits (for the userland stuff) and new stuff tends to be developed with security in mind (sure, holes get in, but they also tend to get fixed quickly). I believe that is the real reason for the dearth of *nix viruses: they can only survive in virtual petri dishes; they just don't get far in the wild anymore. Sure the was the lion worm back in 2000, but it died out rather quickly (unlike those IIS worms of the same time that are still going).
Instead of taking a day to compile a complex map, it could be done in the time it takes to brew a jug of coffee :)