First, Pandora does have an oxygen atmosphere, or how else could you explain the burning torch that Jake Sully lights up in self-defense against the wulf-like creatures at night?
Second, the floating mountains are explained by assuming that the rock is made up of superconducting material ("Unobtainium") and that the flux they keep talking about is actually a strong magnetic field. Superconductors tend to hover in magnetic fields, you know.
Getting an accurate world elevation map essentially for free is really cool. Previously you had to get one of the commercial scenery DVDs that would set you back at least $50.
After all, having realistic mointain terrain makes flying much nicer and recognizing land features will be much easier. Then map some Sat terrain on top, for example with the Tileproxy application and everything will look just real.
Folding@Home is now at 3.4 Petaflops mostly due to the rise of the GPU as a processing device. It's time to re-evaluate your statement.
My folding PC has a theoretical power of about 1.5 Teraflops alone, harbouring 4 nVidia GPUs. Power consumption is a mere 500 Watts.
So yes desktop system have become very efficient in terms of Flops/Watt, if one can accept the restrictions of a GPU based programming model (they're not as versatile as a CPU).
My take is that the're separating the hydrogen from water outside of the car (consuming electricity in the process) and then they use a fuel cell inside the car - regaining electricity and producing water.
No new technology here - all is well known, except that efficient fuel cells for use in cars are still quite expensive - too expensive for mass production and the problem of hydrogen storage is still not solved to satisfaction.
I kind of wonder what the relevance of the availability of the blueprint of a modern multithreaded special-purpose server CPU means to the average Joe.
Probably not much, unless Joe has got an degree with a specialization in computer science or electrical engineering.
If humankind suddenly disappeared, quite a few nuclear reactors would spin completely out of control (can't really trust the automated shutdown systems, - see Forsmark).
The resulting burning nuclear cores might result in severe long term contamination of large areas. This has not been accounted for in this timeline.
how's the state of the support for the sky2 / Yukon Ethernet card that is usually shipped inside Centrino Solo/Duo laptops? Suse 10.1 RC3 did not properly perform a DHCP on my laptop's internal sky2 LAN - it just hung.
They would need to make pork meat with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. That would be nice and healthy. Problem though: I doubt a pig can live consisting of fats that are usually mostly found in plants and vegetable oil. Would that pig have green color?;)
The first delays had different reasons, including structural damage to the fuel tank because of a valve failure. Previously the company did not have enough O2 on site, so new one had to be shipped in.
I think it would have been safer to use a nonstandard DVD drive which rejects burnt DVDs right away. It is trickier to hack a drive's firmware I believe. Extra security measures would have to ensure the drive is not swapped out against a standard drive.
Two player beat-em up games like Soul Calibur II or Dead or Alive 3 typically have a penalty value that you can set individually per player. Basically it extends or shrinks your life bar at the beginning of a match. Usually I am the one requiring the extra health. My girlfriend beats the crap out of me. But usually I win in any kind of driving game.
Did they just put it in a jar? Or did they slice it up and fed it to their employees? Eww...
Cannibalism for market share is really bad, you think that in current time, there are more civilized means to gain market share. Bribery, illegal bundling and abuse of monopolies, unfair competition. You know, those kind of things...
If you believe in creationism (or in the flying spaghetti monster for that sake), you might just as well believe in mobile cooking. But then, your brain is fried anyway.
If I was to invent a new virus scanner right now, I would make sure all my decompression and scanning code runs in some managed environment, like a.NET/Mono runtime or as Java bytecode.
"Open the door. You have requested forbidden literature. You are hereby placed under permanent surveillance. In case of repeated offence, you will be detained!"
Say, shouldn't the US be a little bit less concerned about what people read? This is getting so ridiculous. You no longer live in a free country, folks.
You can easily work around this patent by slowing down the TV stream by factor of 1000,0000,000 instead of just pausing it.
Who needs pause anyway?
During the last 12 years we all have improved our abilities to multitask while surfing online. This is proven on a daily basis by countless geeks masturbating *while* klicking hyperlinks (and sometimes even while @ work). This is progress!
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First, Pandora does have an oxygen atmosphere, or how else could you explain the burning torch that Jake Sully lights up in self-defense against the wulf-like creatures at night?
Second, the floating mountains are explained by assuming that the rock is made up of superconducting material ("Unobtainium") and that the flux they keep talking about is actually a strong magnetic field. Superconductors tend to hover in magnetic fields, you know.
Shit doesn't smell like roses when it is made to fits into a tweet or is in any other way related to Twitter.
Getting an accurate world elevation map essentially for free is really cool. Previously you had to get one of the commercial scenery DVDs that would set you back at least $50.
After all, having realistic mointain terrain makes flying much nicer and recognizing land features will be much easier. Then map some Sat terrain on top, for example with the Tileproxy application and everything will look just real.
the LHC will end it quicker than that. They estimate some 90 days until they've got their repairs done ;)
no dude I am married.
Folding@Home is now at 3.4 Petaflops mostly due to the rise of the GPU as a processing device. It's time to re-evaluate your statement.
My folding PC has a theoretical power of about 1.5 Teraflops alone, harbouring 4 nVidia GPUs. Power consumption is a mere 500 Watts.
So yes desktop system have become very efficient in terms of Flops/Watt, if one can accept the restrictions of a GPU based programming model (they're not as versatile as a CPU).
really
Slashdot won't be doing the PhD work for you.
My take is that the're separating the hydrogen from water outside of the car (consuming electricity in the process) and then they use a fuel cell inside the car - regaining electricity and producing water.
No new technology here - all is well known, except that efficient fuel cells for use in cars are still quite expensive - too expensive for mass production and the problem of hydrogen storage is still not solved to satisfaction.
I kind of wonder what the relevance of the availability of the
blueprint of a modern multithreaded special-purpose server
CPU means to the average Joe.
Probably not much, unless Joe has got an degree with a specialization
in computer science or electrical engineering.
Full disclosure please. It's about time.
For best result (i.e. quick turnaround time) provide a working demo exploit.
If humankind suddenly disappeared, quite a few nuclear reactors would spin
completely out of control (can't really trust the automated shutdown systems,
- see Forsmark).
The resulting burning nuclear cores might result in severe long term
contamination of large areas. This has not been accounted for in this
timeline.
I doubt the GPU can do IEEE double precision floating point.
Is 32 bit precision precision enough for a scientific application
like protein folding?
Is the entire algorithm of folding a big approximation anyway?
The right term is elliptical.
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Speaking of Bugs,
how's the state of the support for the sky2 / Yukon Ethernet card that is usually shipped inside Centrino Solo/Duo laptops? Suse 10.1 RC3 did not properly perform a DHCP on my laptop's internal sky2 LAN - it just hung.
Is there any patch available?
They would need to make pork meat with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. That would be nice and healthy. Problem though: I doubt a pig can live consisting of fats that are usually mostly found in plants and vegetable oil. Would that pig have green color?
I think you're lying!
The first delays had different reasons, including structural damage to the fuel tank because of a valve failure. Previously the company did not have enough O2 on site, so new one had to be shipped in.
I think it would have been safer to use a nonstandard DVD drive which rejects burnt DVDs right away. It is trickier to hack a drive's firmware I believe. Extra security measures would have to ensure the drive is not swapped out against a standard drive.
Two player beat-em up games like Soul Calibur II or Dead or Alive 3 typically have a penalty value that you can set individually per player. Basically it extends or shrinks your life bar at the beginning of a match. Usually I am the one requiring the extra health. My girlfriend beats the crap out of me. But usually I win in any kind of driving game.
Sometimes it works, I have a nice gallery of +5 Funny on my roster. There are occasional duds. Oh well.
WTF! OMG! Samsung has stolen a brain!
Did they just put it in a jar? Or did they slice it up and fed it to their employees? Eww...
Cannibalism for market share is really bad, you think that in current time, there are more civilized means to gain market share. Bribery, illegal bundling and abuse of monopolies, unfair competition. You know, those kind of things...
If you believe in creationism (or in the flying spaghetti monster for that sake), you might just as well believe in mobile cooking. But then, your brain is fried anyway.
If I was to invent a new virus scanner right now, I would make sure all my decompression and scanning code runs in some managed environment, like a
Christian
"Open the door. You have requested forbidden literature. You are hereby placed under
permanent surveillance. In case of repeated offence, you will be detained!"
Say, shouldn't the US be a little bit less concerned about what people read? This is
getting so ridiculous. You no longer live in a free country, folks.
You can easily work around this patent by slowing down the TV
stream by factor of 1000,0000,000 instead of just pausing it.
Who needs pause anyway?
During the last 12 years we all have improved our abilities
to multitask while surfing online. This is proven on a daily basis
by countless geeks masturbating *while* klicking hyperlinks (and
sometimes even while @ work). This is progress!