It's a bit more complicated than that. You can't just grab a P4 chip and throw it on a satellite or the shuttle. There are 2 immediate problems.
First: technology readiness level (TRL). In order for a P4 chip to be put into space, it would need to go through about 1000x more testing than Intel currently puts it through. The last thing you want is the guidance chip on a satellite to produce a single error during a trajectory manuever and have the thing come crashing down to Earth or fly out on some highly elliptical orbit. TRL rates from 0 (concept/prototype) to 10 (repeatedly flight-proven hardware). A P4 chip would be somewhere around 2 - production capable, but no flight testing or flight experience. The space shuttle uses stuff in the 6 or 7 and above range.
Second: operating environment (included in the above TRL, but of particular concern due to the nasty conditions of space). Intense radiation from the Sun and space, inability to easily radiate heat away, etc. RAD-hard components are needed for anything going into space.
For current space-ready equipment, we're talking on the order of 6 MFLOPS... aprox 30 MIPS at 20 MHz. You are not going to run Doom or Quake on this stuff.
Is anyone tracking where that thing is right now? I just assumed that after the stint was over, someone salvaged it, or it just disintegrated after a while. Would be pretty neat to run across it one day.
Exactly. This is why parrots that grow up in human environments can learn to talk. Now they aren't necessarily able to produce complete sentences, but they'll say 'bye' when you leave, 'hello' when you arrive, 'food' when they're hungry, and tons of other action-related words. They'll even mimic your actions to get other animals (or people) to come. They'll call the cats by saying "here kitty kitty", whistle for the dogs, or mimic the phone ringing to get a human:)
Does it really matter? Like Kevin Rose said on the ROTSS radio call: anyone with a subscription to the developers network has had access to the latest Tiger builds. The last build before release is probably very very close to the release, so what does it matter?
But morally, hanging onto both shuffles would be wrong. In the Tiger case, people are trying to jerk them around, so they could keep their current copy until the release and exchange it for a "legit" copy and have a clear conscience. But with the shuffles, if the company realized their error and scheduled a pre-paid pickup, you should give it back. It's not actually your property, but by law you can keep it if you want - that doesn't mean it's right. If a $20 bill falls out of some guy's pocket and you pick it up, legally you could keep it, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't give it back.
lol, I guess I missed that. Never remember hearing those sounds. Just the ping/bzzt sounds when you got to a new intersection. Each intersection usually only had 1 or 2 options anyhow, the rest were either blocked off, or were the direction you just came from.
Yeh, Myst and Riven did have a few things to nitpick about like that. Like the underground tunnel maze on the spaceship island; that was nothing but trial and error, very boring. But the ingenuity that went into other puzzles made up for it. Like the sound puzzles, figuring out that the sounds had anything to do with it in the first place, and then thinking about how to use them - that was fun. And Riven, figuring out the colored balls and that their location on the grid was related to the location of the golden globes on the islands. That was fun.
It doesn't really matter if you're skinny, plump, or fat until you actually reach the "obese" limit. But even if you aren't obese, that doesn't mean you're living healthy. Everyone remembers that kid who ate nothing but fries, ho-hos, and mountain dew but still weighed 140 pounds at 6' tall all through high school and college (perhaps some of you were that kid). The damage done to that body is way beyong someone who eats fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole foods but weighs in at 220 pounds and 6' tall. Just watch your diet and do some exercise during the week. If your metabolism is a little slow and you hold onto a little more weight, it's fine.
Yeh, but Myst IV, Myst III, and Uru all suck... they are just point and click games (go hit this switch, then this switch, then that switch to open this door, to chase some guy, weeeee!) instead of brain-puzzles. Myst was good, Riven was good, but everything after that sucked donkey balls. I tried the demo for the latest Myst game (I think it's IV?) and quit after maybe 10 minutes. They totally missed the mark.
That's actually not a bad idea. I went to a company party at a chinese restaurant once, and for $14 per plate (I saw the price on the signup sheet, but the company paid for it) everyone got an 11 course meal that was excellent. We went through everything, multiple appetizer dishes, multiple entrees, multiple dessert dishes. I couldn't believe the quality and quanitity of food we were eating for only $14 per plate. I think the restaurant was able to save money because they only made 1 big plate per table, but then served it to everyone. So for like a peking duck - they just made 1 duck, but it was enough for 8 ppl at the table. Instead of taking individual orders and preparing a duck dish per person. If you only take 50 people or so, you could serve a top of the line meal to everyone for $700. Heck, you could probably pick up the tab for drinks and keep it under $1000. I have gone to several weddings or anniversary parties, and half the time they serve some rubbery piece of chicken with a side salad. A meal like the one I had would leave your guests wow-ed beyond belief.
For slightly more than $50k you can buy your own kit helicopter (a real helicopter, not some mini-rotor frame that the other poster replied with). Here:
Look under pricing and $67k gets you pretty much everything. It was not entirely clear if all of the avionics were included or not, but all the key components are there: engine, drivetrain, controls, support systems, airframe, body.
However, you can tell that this is a 'cheap' consumer grade aircraft due to the 1000-hour overhaul recommendation. So you won't be seeing any of these flying military or commerical service. They are simply hobby craft and nothing more. But I would love to have one anyhow.
Um, actually wouldn't that be 3D instead of 4D? The 3D would be 2D + time... which is what Premiere and Fireworks do... they don't render 3D objects + time. By saying 4D, you are indicating some sort of modeling software like CAD... or something like Maya or Lightwave for animation.
Actually, giving them food hurts them more in the long run. Because each time we give them food, more people become dependent on us. Instead, we should give them picks and shovels to grow their own food. Then, they are only dependent on us for picks and shovels.
Next, we give them some manufacturing equipment, and stop giving them picks and shovels. Then they are only dependent on us for manufacturing equipment.
Finally, we give them money, and stop giving them manufacturing equipment. Then they are only dependent on us for money. That's where we are with a lot of countries currently. Now, we need to phase out the free money we give them.
PB&J sandwiches are very often made with bananas to form PB&J&Banana sandwiches. You cut the bananas longitudinally to form long slices (like those pickles sliced for sandwiches).
This may be true if I am at home and the connection goes down. I don't have anything else planned necessarily, so I'm kind of anxious for the connection to come back up. But I can also take 2 weeks to go camping and I feel fine. I would like to be able to check my email to see if anyone is trying to contact me, but I'm not going to be driven insane due to that. But that's no different than having a phone and checking your voicemail.
Caller: Hi, I'm at a store and the cashier stole my driver's license. Police: How did they steal it? Caller: I gave it to them with my mom's credit card and they claimed it was stolen, so they kept both. Police: Is it stolen? Caller: No, I have my mom's permission to use it. Police: Ok, what is her name? We'll give her a call to confirm and then get your license back.
Scenario 2 -
Cashier: Hi, this dude is trying to use a stolen credit card. Police: How do you know it's stolen? Cashier: The customer reported it stolen to the CC company. Police: Is the thief still there? Cashier: Yes, I kept his driver's license and he won't leave without it. Police: Ok, we'll be down there to arrest him in a minute.
Meanwhile, Brent, who received a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop Qualrus, is now looking for distributors for the product. He's in talks with several textbook publishers, which he declined to name.
Brent said he plans to donate 1 percent of profits generated through the sale of the program...
This guy gets a freaking grant from the NSF to do some research at a public university, and he is turning around and teaming up with a publisher to make profits on the work? Where the hell are the checks on balances on this? The work should be property of the university or managed by the NSF. And universities around the nation should be allowed access to the work. If he wants to make a quick buck off it, he should fund the project with his own damn money. What a leech.
Um, last I heard, you only commit patent infringment if you sell a product based on someone else's patents. VLC is free, so how does this work? VLC is developed for the programmer's own personal interests, and they give it away to anyone that asks. So how could MS or DTS (who made the demand in TFA) pursue this? Are they still allowed to go after someone if they are "distributing" the patent infringing material (even if the cost is $0)?
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A tornado in Regina - lmao!!! ... SpaceShipOne, lol!!!
Man, that was a good one, now that I spit coffee all over my desk.
It's a bit more complicated than that. You can't just grab a P4 chip and throw it on a satellite or the shuttle. There are 2 immediate problems.
... aprox 30 MIPS at 20 MHz. You are not going to run Doom or Quake on this stuff.
First: technology readiness level (TRL). In order for a P4 chip to be put into space, it would need to go through about 1000x more testing than Intel currently puts it through. The last thing you want is the guidance chip on a satellite to produce a single error during a trajectory manuever and have the thing come crashing down to Earth or fly out on some highly elliptical orbit. TRL rates from 0 (concept/prototype) to 10 (repeatedly flight-proven hardware). A P4 chip would be somewhere around 2 - production capable, but no flight testing or flight experience. The space shuttle uses stuff in the 6 or 7 and above range.
Second: operating environment (included in the above TRL, but of particular concern due to the nasty conditions of space). Intense radiation from the Sun and space, inability to easily radiate heat away, etc. RAD-hard components are needed for anything going into space.
For current space-ready equipment, we're talking on the order of 6 MFLOPS
Is anyone tracking where that thing is right now? I just assumed that after the stint was over, someone salvaged it, or it just disintegrated after a while. Would be pretty neat to run across it one day.
Exactly. This is why parrots that grow up in human environments can learn to talk. Now they aren't necessarily able to produce complete sentences, but they'll say 'bye' when you leave, 'hello' when you arrive, 'food' when they're hungry, and tons of other action-related words. They'll even mimic your actions to get other animals (or people) to come. They'll call the cats by saying "here kitty kitty", whistle for the dogs, or mimic the phone ringing to get a human :)
Are you trying to say that the computer-controlled lane would be some sort of 80+ mph express lane?
Because around here, people commute at 85+ mph and would be passing that "express lane".
Er, this ended up in the wrong forum somehow, lol. It was supposed to be attached to a discussion about the Myst game ... oh well.
Does it really matter? Like Kevin Rose said on the ROTSS radio call: anyone with a subscription to the developers network has had access to the latest Tiger builds. The last build before release is probably very very close to the release, so what does it matter?
But morally, hanging onto both shuffles would be wrong. In the Tiger case, people are trying to jerk them around, so they could keep their current copy until the release and exchange it for a "legit" copy and have a clear conscience. But with the shuffles, if the company realized their error and scheduled a pre-paid pickup, you should give it back. It's not actually your property, but by law you can keep it if you want - that doesn't mean it's right. If a $20 bill falls out of some guy's pocket and you pick it up, legally you could keep it, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't give it back.
lol, I guess I missed that. Never remember hearing those sounds. Just the ping/bzzt sounds when you got to a new intersection. Each intersection usually only had 1 or 2 options anyhow, the rest were either blocked off, or were the direction you just came from.
Yeh, Myst and Riven did have a few things to nitpick about like that. Like the underground tunnel maze on the spaceship island; that was nothing but trial and error, very boring. But the ingenuity that went into other puzzles made up for it. Like the sound puzzles, figuring out that the sounds had anything to do with it in the first place, and then thinking about how to use them - that was fun. And Riven, figuring out the colored balls and that their location on the grid was related to the location of the golden globes on the islands. That was fun.
It doesn't really matter if you're skinny, plump, or fat until you actually reach the "obese" limit. But even if you aren't obese, that doesn't mean you're living healthy. Everyone remembers that kid who ate nothing but fries, ho-hos, and mountain dew but still weighed 140 pounds at 6' tall all through high school and college (perhaps some of you were that kid). The damage done to that body is way beyong someone who eats fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole foods but weighs in at 220 pounds and 6' tall. Just watch your diet and do some exercise during the week. If your metabolism is a little slow and you hold onto a little more weight, it's fine.
Yeh, but Myst IV, Myst III, and Uru all suck ... they are just point and click games (go hit this switch, then this switch, then that switch to open this door, to chase some guy, weeeee!) instead of brain-puzzles. Myst was good, Riven was good, but everything after that sucked donkey balls. I tried the demo for the latest Myst game (I think it's IV?) and quit after maybe 10 minutes. They totally missed the mark.
That's actually not a bad idea. I went to a company party at a chinese restaurant once, and for $14 per plate (I saw the price on the signup sheet, but the company paid for it) everyone got an 11 course meal that was excellent. We went through everything, multiple appetizer dishes, multiple entrees, multiple dessert dishes. I couldn't believe the quality and quanitity of food we were eating for only $14 per plate. I think the restaurant was able to save money because they only made 1 big plate per table, but then served it to everyone. So for like a peking duck - they just made 1 duck, but it was enough for 8 ppl at the table. Instead of taking individual orders and preparing a duck dish per person. If you only take 50 people or so, you could serve a top of the line meal to everyone for $700. Heck, you could probably pick up the tab for drinks and keep it under $1000. I have gone to several weddings or anniversary parties, and half the time they serve some rubbery piece of chicken with a side salad. A meal like the one I had would leave your guests wow-ed beyond belief.
Nothing says 'ghetto' like asking your wedding guests to bring their own food.
It's not a bad idea, the Colombians already tried to do such a thing: http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id= 3341
ICBs? Wtf are those? InterContinental Ballistic what? Pencils? Chairs? Toupees?
if you know how to attach, you know how to defend
I know how to attach a PDF to an email, so that means I can defend the country? Woot!
For slightly more than $50k you can buy your own kit helicopter (a real helicopter, not some mini-rotor frame that the other poster replied with). Here:
Link.
Look under pricing and $67k gets you pretty much everything. It was not entirely clear if all of the avionics were included or not, but all the key components are there: engine, drivetrain, controls, support systems, airframe, body.
However, you can tell that this is a 'cheap' consumer grade aircraft due to the 1000-hour overhaul recommendation. So you won't be seeing any of these flying military or commerical service. They are simply hobby craft and nothing more. But I would love to have one anyhow.
Um, actually wouldn't that be 3D instead of 4D? The 3D would be 2D + time ... which is what Premiere and Fireworks do ... they don't render 3D objects + time. By saying 4D, you are indicating some sort of modeling software like CAD ... or something like Maya or Lightwave for animation.
While your daughter gets free range of all the pr0n available?
Actually, giving them food hurts them more in the long run. Because each time we give them food, more people become dependent on us. Instead, we should give them picks and shovels to grow their own food. Then, they are only dependent on us for picks and shovels.
Next, we give them some manufacturing equipment, and stop giving them picks and shovels. Then they are only dependent on us for manufacturing equipment.
Finally, we give them money, and stop giving them manufacturing equipment. Then they are only dependent on us for money. That's where we are with a lot of countries currently. Now, we need to phase out the free money we give them.
PB&J sandwiches are very often made with bananas to form PB&J&Banana sandwiches. You cut the bananas longitudinally to form long slices (like those pickles sliced for sandwiches).
This may be true if I am at home and the connection goes down. I don't have anything else planned necessarily, so I'm kind of anxious for the connection to come back up. But I can also take 2 weeks to go camping and I feel fine. I would like to be able to check my email to see if anyone is trying to contact me, but I'm not going to be driven insane due to that. But that's no different than having a phone and checking your voicemail.
Makes sense.
Scenario 1 -
Caller: Hi, I'm at a store and the cashier stole my driver's license.
Police: How did they steal it?
Caller: I gave it to them with my mom's credit card and they claimed it was stolen, so they kept both.
Police: Is it stolen?
Caller: No, I have my mom's permission to use it.
Police: Ok, what is her name? We'll give her a call to confirm and then get your license back.
Scenario 2 -
Cashier: Hi, this dude is trying to use a stolen credit card.
Police: How do you know it's stolen?
Cashier: The customer reported it stolen to the CC company.
Police: Is the thief still there?
Cashier: Yes, I kept his driver's license and he won't leave without it.
Police: Ok, we'll be down there to arrest him in a minute.
Something is wrong here:
Meanwhile, Brent, who received a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop Qualrus, is now looking for distributors for the product. He's in talks with several textbook publishers, which he declined to name.
Brent said he plans to donate 1 percent of profits generated through the sale of the program
This guy gets a freaking grant from the NSF to do some research at a public university, and he is turning around and teaming up with a publisher to make profits on the work? Where the hell are the checks on balances on this? The work should be property of the university or managed by the NSF. And universities around the nation should be allowed access to the work. If he wants to make a quick buck off it, he should fund the project with his own damn money. What a leech.
Um, last I heard, you only commit patent infringment if you sell a product based on someone else's patents. VLC is free, so how does this work? VLC is developed for the programmer's own personal interests, and they give it away to anyone that asks. So how could MS or DTS (who made the demand in TFA) pursue this? Are they still allowed to go after someone if they are "distributing" the patent infringing material (even if the cost is $0)?