That's about 100 billion stars (best estimate), so if you started today, and lived another 100 years (lucky you), you'd have to visit about 1 billion stars a year. That would mean about 3 million stars a day or about 100,000 stars every hour. So you'd only have to visit about 30 stars every second. How hard could that be?
Rewriting, retuning, rebuilding the whole world sucks. Rewriting, returning, rebuilding the tools that build the whole world sucks even more. New architectures cause work on the tools side before the new architecture can even be used. It's not something that you want to have to do over, and over, and over again.
Looking for Madonna? There are two tracks available. Garth Brooks has just one, a duet with Trisha Yearwood. And the Beatles? All the hits from John, Paul, George and Ringo are available - but performed on panpipes
Now I'm no country music fan, but if I'm not mistaken isn't Garth Brooks the best selling solo artist of all time? Why would they not put any of his songs up? And no Beatles songs? Maybe its because the service isn't actually "open to the public" yet. I certainly hope so...
Well if you can't read the article, it basically says this robosweep thing is a piece of crap. It contains no electronics other then its motor (which apparently has barely enough power to drive the thing) and it works by mechanically shifting gears when it hits a wall so that it can turn. This in an of itself is not so terrible, but according the article the "robot" also doesn't have enough ground clearence for dirt to pass underneath so instead of actually picking up dirt it just pushes it around.
Btw, if you take a look at the link to the ad you'll see some kind of dislcaimer at the bottom explaining how the Roomba is a registered trademark of iRobot and that the RoboSweep thing is not made or endorsed by iRobot. I though this was interesting since no where on thir page do they mention the Roomba except for in this disclaimer. I guess their product is so terrible they afraid of being accused of trying to make iRobot look bad.
With an ultra thin-frame bezel on all sides of the screen, the new streamlined models not only
reduce usersâ(TM) horizontal desktop space but their attractive design also complements home environments at all angles.
So this monintor reduces my desktop space and it's attractive? What a deal.
This has to be some kind of typo, but what the hell were they trying to say?
There's a split second of black screen that networks place between the broadcast show and the comericial sequence.
My current VCR, which I've had for about 4 years now, has a feature where it identifies these locations and automagically fast forwards when the commericals come on.
The feature is really nice, but has a few downsides, mainly it doesn't always identify the beginning and end of the comericial sequence correctly and I have to fast forward manually or worse, I have to stop it manually and rewind becuase it fast forwarded too far.
Your assertion is incorrect. While cache is useful for accessing the same data over and over again (temporal locality) it also useful for data sets that are close together (spacial locality).
From the article you linked to:
If the CPU is running Winamp and it has just requested second 1:23 of a 5 minute MP3, then you can be reasonably certain that next it's going to want seconds 1:24, 1:25, and so on. This is the same with a DVD file, and with many other types of media files like images, Autocad drawings, and Quake levels. All of these applications operate on large arrays of sequentially ordered data that gets ground through in sequence by the CPU again and again.
That's why I only watch indy movies. I like to steer clear of herd mentality. I don't put much stock in mainstream stuff anyway, since lately it's all bull.
MS anounced Windows Server 2003 for IPF (Itanium Processor Family) several months ago. The IA64 version of the OS will be shipping simultaneously with the x86 version. The AMD64 version however, as mentioned in the press release, will be comming out sometime in the future. I would wager around the same time as the first scheduled service pack comes out.
Not only that but also I really doubt they're pissing off Microsoft at all. Every crappy low end device that doesn't work and has Lindows or Linux in its name is basically saying Linux isn't ready for the big time yet. It only helps M$.
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You obviously don't deal with kinds much :)
FTL travel discovered Boy, I bet he'd be really pissed to get back home and find out the'd invented that.
Hmm... Let's see...
That's about 100 billion stars (best estimate), so if you started today, and lived another 100 years (lucky you), you'd have to visit about 1 billion stars a year. That would mean about 3 million stars a day or about 100,000 stars every hour. So you'd only have to visit about 30 stars every second. How hard could that be?
Yes. The next version of C# will have continuations.
ATHF RULES!
You've obviously never had to write a compiler.
Rewriting, retuning, rebuilding the whole world sucks. Rewriting, returning, rebuilding the tools that build the whole world sucks even more. New architectures cause work on the tools side before the new architecture can even be used. It's not something that you want to have to do over, and over, and over again.
Hmm.. I'm still having trouble building it...
Microsofties don't believe in ignoring the standard... They believe they ARE the standard.
Linux basd PVR? Oh, you must be reffering to the TiVo.
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Well if you can't read the article, it basically says this robosweep thing is a piece of crap. It contains no electronics other then its motor (which apparently has barely enough power to drive the thing) and it works by mechanically shifting gears when it hits a wall so that it can turn. This in an of itself is not so terrible, but according the article the "robot" also doesn't have enough ground clearence for dirt to pass underneath so instead of actually picking up dirt it just pushes it around.
Btw, if you take a look at the link to the ad you'll see some kind of dislcaimer at the bottom explaining how the Roomba is a registered trademark of iRobot and that the RoboSweep thing is not made or endorsed by iRobot. I though this was interesting since no where on thir page do they mention the Roomba except for in this disclaimer. I guess their product is so terrible they afraid of being accused of trying to make iRobot look bad.
Well of course not. They use the same logic as sports casters. If you've recently failed a few times, than your "due" for a big payoff!
Better then in communist Russia: where 802.11b licenses you!
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Couldn't resist
It's not easy to use an abacus in the dark, and its damn near impossible to use the slide rule :(
Any software development team doing only black box testing is foolish. Proper testing needs to be both black box and white box.
My current VCR, which I've had for about 4 years now, has a feature where it identifies these locations and automagically fast forwards when the commericals come on. The feature is really nice, but has a few downsides, mainly it doesn't always identify the beginning and end of the comericial sequence correctly and I have to fast forward manually or worse, I have to stop it manually and rewind becuase it fast forwarded too far.
You pretentious little fuck.
MS anounced Windows Server 2003 for IPF (Itanium Processor Family) several months ago. The IA64 version of the OS will be shipping simultaneously with the x86 version. The AMD64 version however, as mentioned in the press release, will be comming out sometime in the future. I would wager around the same time as the first scheduled service pack comes out.
Not only that but also I really doubt they're pissing off Microsoft at all. Every crappy low end device that doesn't work and has Lindows or Linux in its name is basically saying Linux isn't ready for the big time yet. It only helps M$.