Actually I think only the pilot (and the christmas special that started it all) were done with paper. It just took way too long to sit there and make animation by slowly moving paper figures.
As you mention, graphics still have a far way to go before it is as realistic as real life. Also the resolution can get a lot better.
Computers need the next application to burn all those clock cycles and I think it is neural networks. Grammar checking could get so much better. For games, imagine every enemy being much smarter. Every person in the game could be intelligent and not just tell you what it was programmed to say. Opponents could be much more intelligent and learn from previous encounters making games much more interesting and more playable.
That only works for lossless compression. As an mpeg video (VCD) has lower resolution than the original DVD, it will take a lot less time to compute. It is like the difference between mp3s at 128kbps and 320kbps. The 128kbps mp3 will take a lot less cpu to convert than 320kbps. This is noticible on an old pentium I for example where winamp can play the 128 fine, but will choke on the 320.
Yes MPEG2 is backwards compatible. The major differences from MPEG1 are higher resolution and support for interlaced video. (MPEG1 is progressive only)
I guess 99% of us are retards for wanting more than 2-10MB that most webmail provides. Not for messages, but for images and other attachments.
I currently use hotmail and have my school, isp, spamgourmet and all my others forwarded to it. While I delete the crap right away I have to delete important stuff as well like reports, code, and labs as they are too big. With GMail all those large attachments I will be able to keep online and have access to them whenever I want.
GMail will be just as secure as anything else. Probably more secure than hotmail and yahoo. It is not that hard to protect searches. All arthur email services provide searching they just suck.
The heat capacity is 1.1kJ/Kg Kalvin so about 1/4 that of water. It's freezing point however is -108 C so it could could be easily used at -30 or -40 to keep everything nice and cool. It would also insulate some of the sound I expect.
It isn't free, but the MATLAB neural network toolbox is really nice and you can see and modify a lot of code. They have some nice demos like appcr1 which is a neural network that takes images of letters and can tell you what letter is being shown. It tests it with random noise being added to the image and it works quite well.
Yup and the Azureus bittorrent client has this option disabled by default to prevent massive fragmentation. Allocating only for what has been downloaded is only and advantage when you only want a few files from a multi-file torrent.
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yes it can. A human can be 100% accurate when dealing with only a few emails, but when you are dealing with tens or hundreds you will sometimes make mistakes.
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I could see spam turning mostly into something like the herbal life scam where they trick people to pay money down, and then they just do it to try to make back the initial investment.
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I saw a video from the US memory championships from a few years ago. A university professer took a number of fairly average highschool students and trained them using mnemonics for only a few months. These students took 2nd to 10th position only being defeated by a previous champion.
Something like your street name or postal code works well or your name if it isn't in the email address. Those should all be in any conformation email. Check for them before the spam goes to your main filter. On a side note, a bayesian filter will see those words and as they never occur in spam let all conformation emails through.
Unless they spend sometime with children their own age some other way(like with scouts), there could be some serious lacking in interpersonal skills when they grow older.
It is even worse with only children. They are seriously deprived when the are homeschooled and it can really effect their quality of life when they are older. There is a lot more to school than gaining knowledge.
It looks like the submitter didn't read the article (not that I am suprised). The article's author couldn't even install Fedora let alone try using the PVR software.
Actually it is a very good idea. By keeping the number of pieces on the board high, it greatly reduces how deep the computer can look. This is due to more branches in the search tree.
Look at the number of US that are rated though. 1658 coders compared to only 24 for #1 placed Sweden. It just shows there are more amateur US coders entering the competition.
Personally, I wish a company would throw out every idea from current memory, put a GB of cache on a chip, and get memory access times down to about 3 picoseconds. But memory doesn't have the marketing appeal that processors do, so we're screwed.
The problem is the larger the cache size, the slower the access time. It is a trade off.
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Actually I think only the pilot (and the christmas special that started it all) were done with paper. It just took way too long to sit there and make animation by slowly moving paper figures.
Yup the spammers are still mostly americans.
As you mention, graphics still have a far way to go before it is as realistic as real life. Also the resolution can get a lot better.
Computers need the next application to burn all those clock cycles and I think it is neural networks. Grammar checking could get so much better. For games, imagine every enemy being much smarter. Every person in the game could be intelligent and not just tell you what it was programmed to say. Opponents could be much more intelligent and learn from previous encounters making games much more interesting and more playable.
That only works for lossless compression. As an mpeg video (VCD) has lower resolution than the original DVD, it will take a lot less time to compute. It is like the difference between mp3s at 128kbps and 320kbps. The 128kbps mp3 will take a lot less cpu to convert than 320kbps. This is noticible on an old pentium I for example where winamp can play the 128 fine, but will choke on the 320.
Yes MPEG2 is backwards compatible. The major differences from MPEG1 are higher resolution and support for interlaced video. (MPEG1 is progressive only)
I currently use hotmail and have my school, isp, spamgourmet and all my others forwarded to it. While I delete the crap right away I have to delete important stuff as well like reports, code, and labs as they are too big. With GMail all those large attachments I will be able to keep online and have access to them whenever I want.
GMail will be just as secure as anything else. Probably more secure than hotmail and yahoo. It is not that hard to protect searches. All arthur email services provide searching they just suck.
The heat capacity is 1.1kJ/Kg Kalvin so about 1/4 that of water. It's freezing point however is -108 C so it could could be easily used at -30 or -40 to keep everything nice and cool. It would also insulate some of the sound I expect.
The ability to discharge in a short time is a mixed blessing. Shorting this battery could be a lot more dangerous.
It isn't free, but the MATLAB neural network toolbox is really nice and you can see and modify a lot of code. They have some nice demos like appcr1 which is a neural network that takes images of letters and can tell you what letter is being shown. It tests it with random noise being added to the image and it works quite well.
Yup and the Azureus bittorrent client has this option disabled by default to prevent massive fragmentation. Allocating only for what has been downloaded is only and advantage when you only want a few files from a multi-file torrent.
yes it can. A human can be 100% accurate when dealing with only a few emails, but when you are dealing with tens or hundreds you will sometimes make mistakes.
I could see spam turning mostly into something like the herbal life scam where they trick people to pay money down, and then they just do it to try to make back the initial investment.
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Something like your street name or postal code works well or your name if it isn't in the email address. Those should all be in any conformation email. Check for them before the spam goes to your main filter. On a side note, a bayesian filter will see those words and as they never occur in spam let all conformation emails through.
It is even worse with only children. They are seriously deprived when the are homeschooled and it can really effect their quality of life when they are older. There is a lot more to school than gaining knowledge.
It looks like the submitter didn't read the article (not that I am suprised). The article's author couldn't even install Fedora let alone try using the PVR software.
The artist will only get 50% if they don't have a lable. Hopefully stuff like this will lead to the end of big record companies.
He was 15 when he broke the DVD encryption and now he is still only around 19. He doesn't need to work for a living yet.
I wouldn't classify the google toolbar as spyware as you have want to install it to get it, and it clearly tells you exactly what it does.
Actually it is a very good idea. By keeping the number of pieces on the board high, it greatly reduces how deep the computer can look. This is due to more branches in the search tree.
Look at the number of US that are rated though. 1658 coders compared to only 24 for #1 placed Sweden. It just shows there are more amateur US coders entering the competition.
Where it affects you a lot is with flash cards. They are small enough that the extra size makes a difference. 256MB flash cards only have 244MB.
The worst part is it hurts everyone who buys the CD, while anyone who just downloads it gets more value for no cost.
So heating a mixture of 70% and 90% alcohol isn't a good idea?
The problem is the larger the cache size, the slower the access time. It is a trade off.