How much of the current WebKit is Apple and how much is from other contributors? Does anybody actually know? I'm sure much of KHTML is gone, but the KDE (now Nokia, I guess?) people still work on it, and so does Google among others.
There are so many ways to improve SC2k (and SC4), it's not even funny. And I'm talking about raw gameplay here, not graphics. Whether it's a good business idea -- Maxis feels that SC4 is already too complex -- is another matter.
Not sure what you don't like about SC4, but its reception was quite positive. It certainly improved on SC3k in many ways. Of course it's difficult to repeat the jump from the original SimCity to SimCity 2000. SimCity 2000 was just stunning at the time (for a 12 year old, at least). Anyway, I really want to see a SimCity 5 with an improved transportation model (the heart of a city sim), a better representation of regions; ideally with modding capabilties up there with Civ4. As far as I understand it, SC4 wasn't very easy to mod apart from cosmetic changes, but the community has still come up with an incredible amount of results for the transportation engine among other things.
But the EU isn't nearly as tightly integrated as the US,...
Economically? I wouldn't be so sure.
And here comes the problem, different european nations have completely different population densities.
The same is true for the US states. That's what I said ("variation of population density").
Comparing the whole of the US to an individual European country is meaningless. Maybe you are right and comparing the whole of the US to the whole of the EU (or the whole of Europe) is equally meaningless. I still think it could be interesting, not in spite of the heterogenity within the EU, but because of it. But as long as the whole thing is only used as a dick-waving contest, it's fairly devoid of meaning anyway.
None of this is really relevant. The OP wasn't talking about cultural similarity or nationalistic sentiment. Comparing the availability of fast internet access in the EU and US makes a lot of sense, since both are relatively tightly integrated socio-economic areas. They are also at least vaguely similar in land mass, population size, income levels, and also the variation of population density and income distribution. Still very different -- the population density of the EU is 6 times higher; but certainly more sensible than comparing the entire US to a country like the Netherlands.
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Wine is a moving target, but the AppDB is still the opposite of useless. There's a large number of games that only run with some workaround applied, which is often document in the compatibility report or the (sometimes lengthy) discussion.
Can't say that I've had your experience -- in most cases, games that the AppDB reports as working end up working for me, too. I wouldn't want to give a percentage though, since I've only tried this with maybe a dozen games so far. Usually it's just not worth the hassle.
What kind of services rely on DNS? Web and email communication, obviously, but would voice communication either via cell phones or landlines break down? I suppose much of the voice traffic is routed over the same physical backbone as the Internet, but does it share the same server infrastructure including DNS? What about bank transactions? Are companies smart enough to handle internal communication (even if it touches the net) in a way that would work without DNS? Or would my toilet refuse working without DNS?
Also: considering the distributed, caching nature of DNS, how long would it take for a problem in the root zone to affect people? (Wasn't there a root zone incident a short while back?) Would that give people enough time to revert a botched rollout?
You mean the approximately 1 second it says "Loading..." between pressing the preview button and seeing the actual preview? No, that's still there. Doesn't seem to go away faster, though I didn't measure it with a stopwatch. The same thing happens between pressing "Reply to This" and getting to the actual text box. FWIW Chromium isn't much better. Maybe there is some server communication involved?
Halting problem: "Given a description of a program, decide whether the program finishes running or will run forever."
This has nothing at all to do with being able to execute a script in a runtime environment without freezing the environment itself. The script should be executed in a way that does not affect the rest of the process. Any given script could still run forever. One relatively easy way to do that is to use the operating systems native way of scheduling code... Whether or not you are able to tell whether any given piece of code will ever finish is quite irrelevant to all of this.
Want to set up a sequence of them that all are separated by even 5 mph difference (and that's plenty fast)? Good luck managing it. That's as wide as a 3-lane highway.
Good. We'll have plenty of space if we get rid of the freaking roads.
1) A pixel isn't "invented" by anyone. A pixel is just a concept that is so straightforward, like the wheel, language and adding numbers. It's not a question of which single person "invented" it. It's just a question of, once the technology is there, it WILL be used, no matter what.
Quite apart from the (lack of) significance of the pixel: Terrible examples since those are among the most ground breaking accomplishments in human (pre-)history.
If any of the researchers are used to talk to their plants while gardening, they shouldn't mention the experiment to the seedlings, though. You know, just to be sure.
I'm not sure how true this is these days, but I always had the impression that, overall, European houses were of the built to last category, while US houses were rather faster and cheaper in construction. 1000 years without any kind of rework sounds a bit overengineered to me, though.
The cooling envelope isn't a physical thing, it boils down to a number of Watts. A Thinkpad that comes from the factory equipped with a GPU with a maximum sustained heat output of, say, 40W could use any replacement module with a output of less than 40W. The same modules could be used in a Dell which comes with a thermal system which can handle 40W of heat.
The heat thing isn't the problem here. Although the overall low capacity for both power storage as well as heat output of laptops make a replaceable graphics module less interesting, since the potential for improvement isn't all that big. (Still, replacing an old module with a modern one which includes stuff like H.264 or WebM acceleration would be nice.)
The 3-pin cord in TFA is referred to in the context of desktop ATX power supplies. My Samsung netbook also uses a C7 connector between the wall and the power brick, it seems to be a fairly univeral plug. Very useful when you're going abroad, particularly since with modern power supplies you don't have to worry about input voltage.
Graphic cards do get hot, including those that are already built into laptops. From that point of view there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to replace your current module with a modernized one that fits into your laptops cooling envelope. There are a number of other reasons why having replaceable components in a laptop is not as straightforward as with a standard ATX desktop PC; which is, after all, the other extreme, built to be user serviceable and customizable.
Off the top of my head: Filter the light to transform the difference in color into a difference in intensity. E.g. if you covered the orange/green light from the extension cord with an orange semi-transparent tape, the light would be bright when the laptop is charging and dim when it's not. Should work, right?
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You appear to have made a pretty much random list of technologies/programs - why?
How much of the current WebKit is Apple and how much is from other contributors? Does anybody actually know? I'm sure much of KHTML is gone, but the KDE (now Nokia, I guess?) people still work on it, and so does Google among others.
You need to read it backwards!
There are so many ways to improve SC2k (and SC4), it's not even funny. And I'm talking about raw gameplay here, not graphics. Whether it's a good business idea -- Maxis feels that SC4 is already too complex -- is another matter.
Not sure what you don't like about SC4, but its reception was quite positive. It certainly improved on SC3k in many ways. Of course it's difficult to repeat the jump from the original SimCity to SimCity 2000. SimCity 2000 was just stunning at the time (for a 12 year old, at least).
Anyway, I really want to see a SimCity 5 with an improved transportation model (the heart of a city sim), a better representation of regions; ideally with modding capabilties up there with Civ4. As far as I understand it, SC4 wasn't very easy to mod apart from cosmetic changes, but the community has still come up with an incredible amount of results for the transportation engine among other things.
But the EU isn't nearly as tightly integrated as the US, ...
Economically? I wouldn't be so sure.
And here comes the problem, different european nations have completely different population densities.
The same is true for the US states. That's what I said ("variation of population density").
Comparing the whole of the US to an individual European country is meaningless. Maybe you are right and comparing the whole of the US to the whole of the EU (or the whole of Europe) is equally meaningless. I still think it could be interesting, not in spite of the heterogenity within the EU, but because of it. But as long as the whole thing is only used as a dick-waving contest, it's fairly devoid of meaning anyway.
None of this is really relevant. The OP wasn't talking about cultural similarity or nationalistic sentiment. Comparing the availability of fast internet access in the EU and US makes a lot of sense, since both are relatively tightly integrated socio-economic areas. They are also at least vaguely similar in land mass, population size, income levels, and also the variation of population density and income distribution. Still very different -- the population density of the EU is 6 times higher; but certainly more sensible than comparing the entire US to a country like the Netherlands.
Wine is a moving target, but the AppDB is still the opposite of useless. There's a large number of games that only run with some workaround applied, which is often document in the compatibility report or the (sometimes lengthy) discussion.
Can't say that I've had your experience -- in most cases, games that the AppDB reports as working end up working for me, too. I wouldn't want to give a percentage though, since I've only tried this with maybe a dozen games so far. Usually it's just not worth the hassle.
I wonder whether you're right.
What kind of services rely on DNS? Web and email communication, obviously, but would voice communication either via cell phones or landlines break down? I suppose much of the voice traffic is routed over the same physical backbone as the Internet, but does it share the same server infrastructure including DNS? What about bank transactions? Are companies smart enough to handle internal communication (even if it touches the net) in a way that would work without DNS? Or would my toilet refuse working without DNS?
Also: considering the distributed, caching nature of DNS, how long would it take for a problem in the root zone to affect people? (Wasn't there a root zone incident a short while back?) Would that give people enough time to revert a botched rollout?
Those damned mole-people.
You mean the approximately 1 second it says "Loading..." between pressing the preview button and seeing the actual preview? No, that's still there. Doesn't seem to go away faster, though I didn't measure it with a stopwatch. The same thing happens between pressing "Reply to This" and getting to the actual text box. FWIW Chromium isn't much better. Maybe there is some server communication involved?
Wow, I didn't know that. I installed the 4.0b2pre in Ubuntu (via ppa). Firefox 3.6 x64 takes 3059.4ms in Sunspider, 4.0 x64 takes 1186.4ms -- yikes!
Halting problem: "Given a description of a program, decide whether the program finishes running or will run forever."
This has nothing at all to do with being able to execute a script in a runtime environment without freezing the environment itself. The script should be executed in a way that does not affect the rest of the process. Any given script could still run forever. One relatively easy way to do that is to use the operating systems native way of scheduling code... Whether or not you are able to tell whether any given piece of code will ever finish is quite irrelevant to all of this.
Heaven forbid people change the way they use cars in America. Hopefully they won't have a choice.
PoV is an even stranger unit of measurement than LoC.
Want to set up a sequence of them that all are separated by even 5 mph difference (and that's plenty fast)? Good luck managing it. That's as wide as a 3-lane highway.
Good. We'll have plenty of space if we get rid of the freaking roads.
1) A pixel isn't "invented" by anyone. A pixel is just a concept that is so straightforward, like the wheel, language and adding numbers. It's not a question of which single person "invented" it. It's just a question of, once the technology is there, it WILL be used, no matter what.
Quite apart from the (lack of) significance of the pixel: Terrible examples since those are among the most ground breaking accomplishments in human (pre-)history.
If any of the researchers are used to talk to their plants while gardening, they shouldn't mention the experiment to the seedlings, though. You know, just to be sure.
I'm not sure how true this is these days, but I always had the impression that, overall, European houses were of the built to last category, while US houses were rather faster and cheaper in construction. 1000 years without any kind of rework sounds a bit overengineered to me, though.
The cooling envelope isn't a physical thing, it boils down to a number of Watts. A Thinkpad that comes from the factory equipped with a GPU with a maximum sustained heat output of, say, 40W could use any replacement module with a output of less than 40W. The same modules could be used in a Dell which comes with a thermal system which can handle 40W of heat.
The heat thing isn't the problem here. Although the overall low capacity for both power storage as well as heat output of laptops make a replaceable graphics module less interesting, since the potential for improvement isn't all that big. (Still, replacing an old module with a modern one which includes stuff like H.264 or WebM acceleration would be nice.)
The 3-pin cord in TFA is referred to in the context of desktop ATX power supplies. My Samsung netbook also uses a C7 connector between the wall and the power brick, it seems to be a fairly univeral plug. Very useful when you're going abroad, particularly since with modern power supplies you don't have to worry about input voltage.
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I had never heard of it either but "standard 3-pin" cord is pretty clear.
Graphic cards do get hot, including those that are already built into laptops. From that point of view there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to replace your current module with a modernized one that fits into your laptops cooling envelope. There are a number of other reasons why having replaceable components in a laptop is not as straightforward as with a standard ATX desktop PC; which is, after all, the other extreme, built to be user serviceable and customizable.
Off the top of my head: Filter the light to transform the difference in color into a difference in intensity. E.g. if you covered the orange/green light from the extension cord with an orange semi-transparent tape, the light would be bright when the laptop is charging and dim when it's not. Should work, right?
That's those places you go to to get books about C/C++ which help you reinvent the wheel, right?