Uh, I'd rather imagine that a lot of little speakers all moving together constitutes pretty good bass production. The original Bose 601 was an array of ~3" speakers (6 of them I believe) and produced very good bass.
Nothing physical can be truely fractal. But let's call physical things that appear to be fractalish, or fractallike, fractal if only so that people won't start using those particular non-words.
Another way to measure the snowflake's volume would be to place it in a fluid that you're sure will penetrate all the nooks and crannies and measure the displacement. No phase change to worry about. Only that the fluid fills all the holes.
Fractal describes the shape of the object. If you submerge the object in something that has high surface tension then you won't get the true volume. The fluid won't fill all the holes.
Measure the circumference of an island with a yardstick (meterstick?) Then do it again with something smaller (inchstick?). The 2nd measurement is likely to be higher because you got into more corners with the smaller tool.
Exactly! But consider that your folder heirarchy IS MetaData! Remembering a series of (hopefully well chosen) folder names is the same as remembering enough Attributes to find the same document.
However, MetaData based systems mean that you don't necessarity need to remember the Exact location to narrow the search enough to still find the file. In fact, you may find files that you forgot about or didn't consider but fit your needs/help you do your work.
I certainly don't think that arguments for not doing something, based on what Idiots will or won't do with it, have any merit. Idiots will be idiots. Until the OS is smart enough to hold their hand and wipe their ass, nothing will be good enough.
I wonder if anyone has compiled the Seti@Home client with ICC and benchmarked against GCC? Could be interesting.
What about similar distributed projects?
Sorry, but I have to ask. Exactly what does the NUL: device in DOS/windows not do that you want it to? (yes, it is a device, not a reserved word. Just like COM1:, LPT1:, AUX:, CON: and a few others I can't remember now are devices) I have quite a few BAT files that redirect stuff I don't want to see to NUL. (Before you call me some kind of Windows lover, I also have Cygwin installed anywhere I must use Windows, but prefer Linux and am typing this on my iBook. They're just tools.)
Lastly, has anyone here looked at the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) utilities? They don't work in DOS mode (e.g. Win9x), but they're default now on 2K, XP. Basically, you can script just about any aspect of Windows (including calling DLLs) using either Visual Basic, or JavaScript. Not extacly the same as say bash, but far better than CMD.EXE/COMMAND.COM. I also believe that there are Perl and Python modules for this too, but don't quote me.
One of the big misconceptions about Firewire is that you can actually USE anything near 400Mbps. The overhead of the protocol (especially SBP which most drives use to emulate SCSI) is atrocious. My company has a controller/device connected using 200 Mbps firewire and we never get more than 70% of that rate in actual transfer. Typically it is lower than that. Firewire's problem compared to SATA is that it is a general purpose connection that supports many different devices, protocols and such. Of course that is also its strength.
My point is, Firewire is nice but will probably always be more $$$ than any current or future version of ATA at comparable performance.
is that they keep ignoring Aragorn's sword (Anduril?). They completely skipped the whole story of it being reforged in the first movie. Then in this one in the scene where the guard asks for all their weapons Aragorn is supposed to warn the guard not to even touch the thing. They all list the history of their weapons, impressing the guard to no end. I can't see that in the next movie that they will suddenly fill us in about the sword; it wouldn't make much sense.
The thing about the ents is that they seem too cartoonish. They don't have enough detail. The edges are too sharp. They're supposed to be OLD. They didn't look that way.
The entire movie was pretty much just a series of homages (sp?) to earlier Bond films. Halle even admitted that her rising out of the water scene was done with Ursula's scene in mind. Then the diamond-laser-satellite-death-ray-thing was from Moonraker (? I think). I'm sure more astute viewers could come up with more. It was a Bond-film. No surprises expected. I had fun. The Moneypenny scene was hilarious.
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Yeah, and who said that was a bad guy anyway. For all Bond knew he was just some guy out for a ride. Now he's totally stranded:-)
No, the worst part was the whole ice-rocket chase scene and subsequent crap. OMG that was horrible effects. All they were missing was a few muppets.
What no one seems to notice is that Chimera was done by the same people who are doing Phoenix - First!
That, and Chimera is still way faster on OS X than Phoenix (yes, I have them both).
Still, it is more important that we have the choice.
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So you're saying that C++ is only better than C after you've already stopped using it? Sounds right to me.
Or did anyone else think that the Demoscene came between the Pleistocene and the Miocene?
OK, just me I guess.
Uh, I'd rather imagine that a lot of little speakers all moving together constitutes pretty good bass production. The original Bose 601 was an array of ~3" speakers (6 of them I believe) and produced very good bass.
Me too. Looks cool in Safari (brushed metal and all that...)
Nothing physical can be truely fractal. But let's call physical things that appear to be fractalish, or fractallike, fractal if only so that people won't start using those particular non-words.
Another way to measure the snowflake's volume would be to place it in a fluid that you're sure will penetrate all the nooks and crannies and measure the displacement. No phase change to worry about. Only that the fluid fills all the holes. Fractal describes the shape of the object. If you submerge the object in something that has high surface tension then you won't get the true volume. The fluid won't fill all the holes. Measure the circumference of an island with a yardstick (meterstick?) Then do it again with something smaller (inchstick?). The 2nd measurement is likely to be higher because you got into more corners with the smaller tool.
But then how's that easier than a filename?
Exactly! But consider that your folder heirarchy IS MetaData! Remembering a series of (hopefully well chosen) folder names is the same as remembering enough Attributes to find the same document.
However, MetaData based systems mean that you don't necessarity need to remember the Exact location to narrow the search enough to still find the file. In fact, you may find files that you forgot about or didn't consider but fit your needs/help you do your work.
I certainly don't think that arguments for not doing something, based on what Idiots will or won't do with it, have any merit. Idiots will be idiots. Until the OS is smart enough to hold their hand and wipe their ass, nothing will be good enough.
I wonder if anyone has compiled the Seti@Home client with ICC and benchmarked against GCC? Could be interesting. What about similar distributed projects?
I learned to get across the room by breaking glass on the floor then stripping naked and wrigginlg across it while squeezing lemon juice on my body.
Ya know, hot coffee through the nose is not a good way to start your day. Too f---ing funny pal!
Sorry, but I have to ask. Exactly what does the NUL: device in DOS/windows not do that you want it to? (yes, it is a device, not a reserved word. Just like COM1:, LPT1:, AUX:, CON: and a few others I can't remember now are devices) I have quite a few BAT files that redirect stuff I don't want to see to NUL. (Before you call me some kind of Windows lover, I also have Cygwin installed anywhere I must use Windows, but prefer Linux and am typing this on my iBook. They're just tools.)
Lastly, has anyone here looked at the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) utilities? They don't work in DOS mode (e.g. Win9x), but they're default now on 2K, XP. Basically, you can script just about any aspect of Windows (including calling DLLs) using either Visual Basic, or JavaScript. Not extacly the same as say bash, but far better than CMD.EXE/COMMAND.COM. I also believe that there are Perl and Python modules for this too, but don't quote me.
One of the big misconceptions about Firewire is that you can actually USE anything near 400Mbps. The overhead of the protocol (especially SBP which most drives use to emulate SCSI) is atrocious. My company has a controller/device connected using 200 Mbps firewire and we never get more than 70% of that rate in actual transfer. Typically it is lower than that. Firewire's problem compared to SATA is that it is a general purpose connection that supports many different devices, protocols and such. Of course that is also its strength.
My point is, Firewire is nice but will probably always be more $$$ than any current or future version of ATA at comparable performance.
Uhhh, I have a Mac at work that boots OS X from a Firewire drive just fine. Yours may not boot, but that doesn't mean they all don't.
That's my point. It is supposed to be. They never mention it.
is that they keep ignoring Aragorn's sword (Anduril?). They completely skipped the whole story of it being reforged in the first movie. Then in this one in the scene where the guard asks for all their weapons Aragorn is supposed to warn the guard not to even touch the thing. They all list the history of their weapons, impressing the guard to no end. I can't see that in the next movie that they will suddenly fill us in about the sword; it wouldn't make much sense.
The thing about the ents is that they seem too cartoonish. They don't have enough detail. The edges are too sharp. They're supposed to be OLD. They didn't look that way.
I liked it, I didn't love it.
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Gee, I wonder why I didn't come up with that. Must have been the word 'Diamonds' in the title. The obvious tends to throw me off.
That was a BOOK review. This was a Movie review. Moving Pictures and Sound, ya know.
The entire movie was pretty much just a series of homages (sp?) to earlier Bond films. Halle even admitted that her rising out of the water scene was done with Ursula's scene in mind. Then the diamond-laser-satellite-death-ray-thing was from Moonraker (? I think). I'm sure more astute viewers could come up with more. It was a Bond-film. No surprises expected. I had fun. The Moneypenny scene was hilarious.
Yeah, and who said that was a bad guy anyway. For all Bond knew he was just some guy out for a ride. Now he's totally stranded :-)
No, the worst part was the whole ice-rocket chase scene and subsequent crap. OMG that was horrible effects. All they were missing was a few muppets.
Its not a question of where it Grips it...
Like ReDDD? or...well, like Reddd?
Will these get rid of the pounding headache I get whenever I have to even look at XP's candy interface?
You're supposed to tell Them where to go.
I thought that was the planet where Slartibartfast did all his lovely work on the fjords. What's it doing around Jupiter?
What no one seems to notice is that Chimera was done by the same people who are doing Phoenix - First! That, and Chimera is still way faster on OS X than Phoenix (yes, I have them both). Still, it is more important that we have the choice. Shun yourself! Buy a multi-button mouse.