Is is also possible to get more finely grained parallelism in the processor this way? Say, for instance, one certain stage of the pipe runs at half the speed of the other stages. Could one then just replace one of these stages with two, and have the pipeline alternate which stages it uses?
Some of the more avant guard sting theorists are advancing the notion that black holes are simply really really big (as in high energy) elementary particles (i.e. strings). It'll be interesting to see if this particular theory holds any water, because it might mean high energy physicists may one day be trying to sling black holes at each other;).
One piece of good news is that the difference between the Japanese and American Gamecubes is a 0 Ohm resistor soldered on to the board. IIRC, it's not too difficult to wire a switch across it, and it's easier to mod the Japanese systems because its the one with no resistor added.. I don't know about PAL systems, though. BlackGriffen
Boiling water in a paper cup: the cup must not be coated with wax, it works because paper burns at 451 F, and water boils at 212 F. Just keep the flames low enough that the rim of the cup doesn't light up.
Crushing cans: There are several variants, but the cheapest one involves putting some water in the bottom of an otherwise empty soda can. Boil the water until you see steam coming out. Then, quickly tip the can over in to about an inch or two of cool water.
Mag-Lev: find an aluminum pot lid. Everyone knows that aluminum isn't magnetic, right? Well, rig up the lid so that it's attached to a drill. Take a small disk magnet (rare earth works best) and attach it to an armature (easiest way is to take some sort of steel latch or hinge and just stick the magnet to it). Spin up the lid, and hold the magnet over it with the armature. The key is that if it weren't for the mag lev effect, it would fall on to the pot lid.
Angular momentum: Student + weights they can hold + disk they can sit on and spin = good fun. Show them how pulling the masses is speeds them up, and holding them out slows them down.
There's a whole lot more, but that's all I can think of right now.
"Apple sued developers of the KDE and Gnome themes that were "confusingly similar" to their Aqua theme?"
That has nothing to do with source code and everything to do with branding. Apple wants people to be able to look at the screen and say, "Oh, that's a Mac," like they have done for years.
"Made the decision to keep their window manager closed, in order to keep the community from benefiting?"
There's a very good reason for closed sourcing the the window manager. Any monkey can find a free BSD variant online, but the window manager is sufficiently different from X and it's managers to make it stand out, so Apple doesn't want to lose that competitive advantage. If Apple lets go of that, then there would be no reason to buy a Mac when 50 clones came out on the x86 platform. Simply put, Apple isn't just in the business of building computers, and because they also make the operating system, they cannot afford to open source all of it unless they are willing to let go of what competitive advantages they do have.
Besides, I was under the impression that parts of the Red Hat distro were proprietary, no?
Their servers (and ign's) have been busy all night. I couldn't get www.blizzard.com to load for an hour after the announcement (to see what it was), and that was before there was any kind of slashdot effect.
I imagine that the slashdot effect turned what was already a major server rape in to an all out gang rape.
www.warcraftiii.net was pretty bad, too. Pretty much anything affiliated with Blizzard was hit pretty hard tonight.
Aside from lots of copyrights, a few patents, and an army of lawyers, not much at all. Oh, yes, supporting all of the different connectors would be a hassle if you go for actual emulation of the cartridges. Honestly, you're computer can do it now (for the most part), if you know where to look.
The only reason Kea.. Kaiu... fuck it, that guy made a good Neo was because Neo was supposed to be cluless since he was in a new situation (fate and fortune tellers, alternate worlds, etc.). I don't know if I want him to continue playing Neo in the sequels, because that Neo won't be clueless, and I don't see him pulling that off.
AFAIK, they're just using traditional techniques on him (unless hes getting some sort of experimental neuron growth factor on the side), it's just that he can afford nearly constant therapy. It's the power of a fat wad of cash.
Adam West would have made a better Superman than Batman. He played a campy do-gooder. The only edge he had was playing a good strategist and detective, but that's not something you have time for in a movie. Remember, Batman was a psychotic vigilante who had a nearly split personality.
The Batman that Adam West portrayed was the neutered Batman of that 1950's. That was not Batman. That Batman didn't even hav a dark side, let alone the borderline personality.
Oddly, after seeing the satire on Saturday Night Live, I think that The Rock could do a really good job. I'd have to find out more by talking to the people who worked with him in the mummy movies and the Akkadian (or whatever that was called), but he was Superman's spitting image.
I don't know how much acting skill Superman would take, anyway. I think the biggest hurdle for Keanue (however the fuck you spell his name) would be the fact that Superman was supposed to be intelligent. Ok, not Batman intelligent, and not a master of disguise;), but he definitely had some gray matter between his ears. But then I don't know if the Rock could pull that off, either.
Home movies (and the requisite editing space). Do you honestly think they'll ever have a hard drive big enough for those first time parents and/or people getting married?
Combine that with the ability to back up your CDs and/or DVDs in full quality (no oggs or mp3s, aifs and vobs), and you've got a pretty neat thing on your hands.
IIRC, market share figures are all about sales, not installed base. Especially considering that everyone I know keeps their macs for quite some time, I doubt that the total number of Linux users outnumbers the Mac users, yet. That said, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Linux were experiencing greater growth than Macs if for no other reason than the cost of switching. With Linux, the cost is potentially labor only (granted, potentially more labor than switching to Macs). With Macs, though, you have some labor, a change in hardware, whole new software investments (the inability to run Windows at decent speeds [VPC is too slow] alongside OSX [as either a dual boot or Lindows] really hurts). Perhaps the Mac switch costs less overall, especially if your time is valuable (I doubt it, but I've learned never to make assertions that may be wrong before I do some actual number crunching), but that bigger initial investment required is a real barrier.
I'm a Mac user, and I'm sticking with it, but this tidbit doesn't surprise me at all.
As previously mentioned, Feynman's Lectures are great. I would also recommend The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. The stuff about string theory is stuff you can ignore, but the sections on relativity and QM are pretty good "in a nutshell" type explanations.
It's a bit bland, but that's about all you can expect form mainstream. I just loved this paragraph, though:
"While Palladium is still a long way off, an uproar has arisen over how technologies might be used to curtail consumer "fair use" rights to make personal copies of movies and music and to more tightly control software use."
Why on earth did they put the term "fair use" in quotes? It sounds almost like they're trying to discredit the notion.
Other than this one glaring exception, not a bad piece. Not a good piece, but not bad either.
What if we are just a simulation running on some computer? I guess that's all just Through the Looking Glass again. "Are we the dreamer, or merely a part of another's dream?"
It would, of course, be possible to just ignore the smart chip (unless it somehow obscures the data physically while not in use). Then just strip a reader from a drive and write some extraction software to get any encryption keys or whatnot you might need.
Ooops, did I just violate the DMCA with this post? Well, I can at least say that I didn't get in to specifics since I haven't even read the article;).
You need to remember: for the most part the Food Network people are TV personalities. In fact, I can only think of three who are practicing chefs: Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, and Bobby Flay. Jamie is probably too young and inexperienced (might have been a good match for Kobe). Mario, I think, is too used to laid back and time consuming cooking methods, though he'd probably surprise me. Bobby did battle Morimoto: lost in the U.S., won in Japan (on the novelty of tamales, and the panel's palettes rebelling at Morimoto's attempt to cook without soy sauce, it would seem to me). I really dislike Bobby for his egotistical attitude and lack of respect, and I'm embarrassed that an ass like him faced Morimoto. Sakai and probably Chen would have cleaned his clock, though. Not to mention Michiba San.
At any rate, I remember an episode of "East Meets West" where Morimoto was guest starring. Ming mentioned that his fans were always asking him, "Why don't you go on Iron Chef?" and he said, "Because I don't like to lose."
Don't get me wrong, Emeril might have been able to do something in his heyday, but he is definitely out of practice, and would not be capable of facing real chefs.
I took a neuroscience class last fall and I can answer your question. There are definitely G-protein coupled receptors in the mouth for detecting more than just "salt, sweet, sour, and bitter." In fact, IIRC, sweet and bitter both rely on similar (GPC) receptors, whilst sour and salt rely on ion channels. The name of this taste is called "umami." What you're tasting is the neurotrasmitter glutamate. The dangerous part of MSG is the sodium ion, because sodium is necessary (neurons cannot fire without it) but people generally get too much of it anyway.
IIRC, neuroscientists haven't yet figured out all of the different receptors in our mouths. The basic idea is that each one provides a benefit to survival: sweet = high carb, sour = citrus (?), bitter = poisonous, salt = need salt, umami = good protein source (?), etc.
BlackGriffen
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More liek 99% of the population will never need a full 128 bit integer support. The biggest reason for moving to 64 bit is to increase the amount of memory the system can address. Moving up in size actually has disadvantages, though. Every time you're moving data around, you're pushing twice the amount of bits, whether you need them or not.
If they make it so that they can control who is on Gnutella, won't the RIAA be able to sue whomever has this control? Bad idea, folks. The simple solution is bandwidth limiting, and blacklists for IP's that are abusive.
The American Go Association has a tutorial available on this web page. I need to study them further, because the advice seems sound, it just hasn't sunk in to my playing style yet.
From what I understand, they can't make a program that can beat even a decent player at that game. GNU Go whips me consistently at the lowest lever, though.
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Is is also possible to get more finely grained parallelism in the processor this way? Say, for instance, one certain stage of the pipe runs at half the speed of the other stages. Could one then just replace one of these stages with two, and have the pipeline alternate which stages it uses?
BlackGriffen
Some of the more avant guard sting theorists are advancing the notion that black holes are simply really really big (as in high energy) elementary particles (i.e. strings). It'll be interesting to see if this particular theory holds any water, because it might mean high energy physicists may one day be trying to sling black holes at each other ;).
BlackGriffen
One piece of good news is that the difference between the Japanese and American Gamecubes is a 0 Ohm resistor soldered on to the board. IIRC, it's not too difficult to wire a switch across it, and it's easier to mod the Japanese systems because its the one with no resistor added.. I don't know about PAL systems, though.
BlackGriffen
Boiling water in a paper cup: the cup must not be coated with wax, it works because paper burns at 451 F, and water boils at 212 F. Just keep the flames low enough that the rim of the cup doesn't light up.
Crushing cans: There are several variants, but the cheapest one involves putting some water in the bottom of an otherwise empty soda can. Boil the water until you see steam coming out. Then, quickly tip the can over in to about an inch or two of cool water.
Mag-Lev: find an aluminum pot lid. Everyone knows that aluminum isn't magnetic, right? Well, rig up the lid so that it's attached to a drill. Take a small disk magnet (rare earth works best) and attach it to an armature (easiest way is to take some sort of steel latch or hinge and just stick the magnet to it). Spin up the lid, and hold the magnet over it with the armature. The key is that if it weren't for the mag lev effect, it would fall on to the pot lid.
Angular momentum: Student + weights they can hold + disk they can sit on and spin = good fun. Show them how pulling the masses is speeds them up, and holding them out slows them down.
There's a whole lot more, but that's all I can think of right now.
BlackGriffen
"Apple sued developers of the KDE and Gnome themes that were "confusingly similar" to their Aqua theme?"
That has nothing to do with source code and everything to do with branding. Apple wants people to be able to look at the screen and say, "Oh, that's a Mac," like they have done for years.
"Made the decision to keep their window manager closed, in order to keep the community from benefiting?"
There's a very good reason for closed sourcing the the window manager. Any monkey can find a free BSD variant online, but the window manager is sufficiently different from X and it's managers to make it stand out, so Apple doesn't want to lose that competitive advantage. If Apple lets go of that, then there would be no reason to buy a Mac when 50 clones came out on the x86 platform. Simply put, Apple isn't just in the business of building computers, and because they also make the operating system, they cannot afford to open source all of it unless they are willing to let go of what competitive advantages they do have.
Besides, I was under the impression that parts of the Red Hat distro were proprietary, no?
BlackGriffen
Their servers (and ign's) have been busy all night. I couldn't get www.blizzard.com to load for an hour after the announcement (to see what it was), and that was before there was any kind of slashdot effect.
I imagine that the slashdot effect turned what was already a major server rape in to an all out gang rape.
www.warcraftiii.net was pretty bad, too. Pretty much anything affiliated with Blizzard was hit pretty hard tonight.
BlackGriffen
Aside from lots of copyrights, a few patents, and an army of lawyers, not much at all. Oh, yes, supporting all of the different connectors would be a hassle if you go for actual emulation of the cartridges. Honestly, you're computer can do it now (for the most part), if you know where to look.
BlackGriffen
The only reason Kea.. Kaiu... fuck it, that guy made a good Neo was because Neo was supposed to be cluless since he was in a new situation (fate and fortune tellers, alternate worlds, etc.). I don't know if I want him to continue playing Neo in the sequels, because that Neo won't be clueless, and I don't see him pulling that off.
BlackGriffen
AFAIK, they're just using traditional techniques on him (unless hes getting some sort of experimental neuron growth factor on the side), it's just that he can afford nearly constant therapy. It's the power of a fat wad of cash.
BlackGriffen
Adam West would have made a better Superman than Batman. He played a campy do-gooder. The only edge he had was playing a good strategist and detective, but that's not something you have time for in a movie. Remember, Batman was a psychotic vigilante who had a nearly split personality.
The Batman that Adam West portrayed was the neutered Batman of that 1950's. That was not Batman. That Batman didn't even hav a dark side, let alone the borderline personality.
BlackGriffen
Oddly, after seeing the satire on Saturday Night Live, I think that The Rock could do a really good job. I'd have to find out more by talking to the people who worked with him in the mummy movies and the Akkadian (or whatever that was called), but he was Superman's spitting image.
;), but he definitely had some gray matter between his ears. But then I don't know if the Rock could pull that off, either.
I don't know how much acting skill Superman would take, anyway. I think the biggest hurdle for Keanue (however the fuck you spell his name) would be the fact that Superman was supposed to be intelligent. Ok, not Batman intelligent, and not a master of disguise
Screw it, another vote for Bruce Campbell!
BlackGriffen
Home movies (and the requisite editing space). Do you honestly think they'll ever have a hard drive big enough for those first time parents and/or people getting married?
Combine that with the ability to back up your CDs and/or DVDs in full quality (no oggs or mp3s, aifs and vobs), and you've got a pretty neat thing on your hands.
Too bad about the warranty, though.
BlackGriffen
IIRC, market share figures are all about sales, not installed base. Especially considering that everyone I know keeps their macs for quite some time, I doubt that the total number of Linux users outnumbers the Mac users, yet. That said, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Linux were experiencing greater growth than Macs if for no other reason than the cost of switching. With Linux, the cost is potentially labor only (granted, potentially more labor than switching to Macs). With Macs, though, you have some labor, a change in hardware, whole new software investments (the inability to run Windows at decent speeds [VPC is too slow] alongside OSX [as either a dual boot or Lindows] really hurts). Perhaps the Mac switch costs less overall, especially if your time is valuable (I doubt it, but I've learned never to make assertions that may be wrong before I do some actual number crunching), but that bigger initial investment required is a real barrier.
I'm a Mac user, and I'm sticking with it, but this tidbit doesn't surprise me at all.
BlackGriffen
As previously mentioned, Feynman's Lectures are great. I would also recommend The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. The stuff about string theory is stuff you can ignore, but the sections on relativity and QM are pretty good "in a nutshell" type explanations.
BlackGriffen
It's a bit bland, but that's about all you can expect form mainstream. I just loved this paragraph, though:
"While Palladium is still a long way off, an uproar has arisen over how technologies might be used to curtail consumer "fair use" rights to make personal copies of movies and music and to more tightly control software use."
Why on earth did they put the term "fair use" in quotes? It sounds almost like they're trying to discredit the notion.
Other than this one glaring exception, not a bad piece. Not a good piece, but not bad either.
BlackGriffen
What if we are just a simulation running on some computer? I guess that's all just Through the Looking Glass again. "Are we the dreamer, or merely a part of another's dream?"
BlackGriffen
It would, of course, be possible to just ignore the smart chip (unless it somehow obscures the data physically while not in use). Then just strip a reader from a drive and write some extraction software to get any encryption keys or whatnot you might need.
;).
Ooops, did I just violate the DMCA with this post? Well, I can at least say that I didn't get in to specifics since I haven't even read the article
BlackGriffen
Problem is that the reptilian logo looks more like either a t-rex or a velociraptor than a guy in a cheesy costume.
BG
You need to remember: for the most part the Food Network people are TV personalities. In fact, I can only think of three who are practicing chefs: Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, and Bobby Flay. Jamie is probably too young and inexperienced (might have been a good match for Kobe). Mario, I think, is too used to laid back and time consuming cooking methods, though he'd probably surprise me. Bobby did battle Morimoto: lost in the U.S., won in Japan (on the novelty of tamales, and the panel's palettes rebelling at Morimoto's attempt to cook without soy sauce, it would seem to me). I really dislike Bobby for his egotistical attitude and lack of respect, and I'm embarrassed that an ass like him faced Morimoto. Sakai and probably Chen would have cleaned his clock, though. Not to mention Michiba San.
At any rate, I remember an episode of "East Meets West" where Morimoto was guest starring. Ming mentioned that his fans were always asking him, "Why don't you go on Iron Chef?" and he said, "Because I don't like to lose."
Don't get me wrong, Emeril might have been able to do something in his heyday, but he is definitely out of practice, and would not be capable of facing real chefs.
BlackGriffen
I took a neuroscience class last fall and I can answer your question. There are definitely G-protein coupled receptors in the mouth for detecting more than just "salt, sweet, sour, and bitter." In fact, IIRC, sweet and bitter both rely on similar (GPC) receptors, whilst sour and salt rely on ion channels. The name of this taste is called "umami." What you're tasting is the neurotrasmitter glutamate. The dangerous part of MSG is the sodium ion, because sodium is necessary (neurons cannot fire without it) but people generally get too much of it anyway.
IIRC, neuroscientists haven't yet figured out all of the different receptors in our mouths. The basic idea is that each one provides a benefit to survival: sweet = high carb, sour = citrus (?), bitter = poisonous, salt = need salt, umami = good protein source (?), etc.
BlackGriffen
More liek 99% of the population will never need a full 128 bit integer support. The biggest reason for moving to 64 bit is to increase the amount of memory the system can address. Moving up in size actually has disadvantages, though. Every time you're moving data around, you're pushing twice the amount of bits, whether you need them or not.
BlackGriffen
If they make it so that they can control who is on Gnutella, won't the RIAA be able to sue whomever has this control? Bad idea, folks. The simple solution is bandwidth limiting, and blacklists for IP's that are abusive.
BlackGriffen
BlackGriffen
That's all well and good, but chalk dries out the hand something fierce, and white boards make me sneeze.
BG
From what I understand, they can't make a program that can beat even a decent player at that game. GNU Go whips me consistently at the lowest lever, though.
BlackGriffen