The gram was originally defined in relation to a cubic centimetre of water (the temperature originally being 0 degrees, later 4 degrees). Then the IPK was made based on this.
So, what's the problem here? Don't we have a fixed reference, the weight of a given volume of water at a given temperature? Why can't we re-calibrate from that?
A boring series that nobody watched got cancelled. Big deal.
All his nonsense about the non-sustainability of the cable television model is bunk, too; SyFy's shows were available on iTunes before NBC pulled them; that didn't really change much. That's the point, anyhow, that the fact that a show was produced for cable doesn't preclude it from showing up on iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, etc.
It was in response to a question asking why Palin was convinced that her proximity to Russia gave her foreign policy experience.
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Databases? Like, Oracle, DB2, Pervasive, Sybase? There are a lot of modern enterprise DBMS solutions that run on Linux. I'm tempted to say more than Windows, but that's just a hunch. But since you seem to think that DOS is still relevant in a modern enterprise, I can say conclusively that more modern enterprise DBMS solutions run on Linux than DOS.
Mainly because no modern enterprise DBMS solution runs on DOS.
If you want to be pedantic, let's look up the actual definition for "Quantum Leap" from the oxford dictionary:
"a sudden large increase or advance"
How about Princeton WordNet?
"quantum leap, quantum jump (a sudden large increase or advance)"
Dictionary.com?
"any sudden and significant change, advance, or increase."
Cambridge?
"a great improvement or important development in something"
Merriam-Webster?
"an abrupt change, sudden increase, or dramatic advance"
What about in terms of the actual scientific concept of a sudden change in an electron's energy level? The relative distance moved compared to the size of the electron is mind bogglingly enormous.
But with a power budget a hundred times higher, consoles will already be ahead. Yes, portable devices have passed previous gen consoles and will eventually pass current-gen consoles, but remember that current-gen consoles are way behind the curve. The seventh generation began five years ago with the 360, and the sort of hardware that could be produced today (5 years should be roughly 3-4 doublings by Moore's Law) is far more performant than the current consoles on the market.
The fact is, yes, what a mobile device can achieve is rapidly increasing, but no more so than what a non-portable device can achieve. You will always be able to do a lot more with a hundred times the power budget. This will always be the case, and handhelds will never catch up with what a home console produced at the same time could achieve.
Replacing all devices is even less realistic than complementing them... Unless battery technology makes a quantum leap, allowing power densities a hundred times what we have today, power will be an issue for a long time to come; you'll still be limited to a watt or two on a handheld device, while your console will be able to take advantage of a hundred watts or two.
She's the Queen of Canada, not the Queen of England in Canada.
She is independently the Queen of the individual nations; the Queen of England and the Queen of Canada are two different people who happen to inhabit the same body.
Otherwise I will be waiting for the video game of canoeing and collecting beaver pelts etc... which I don't think will be a very good game. That or a historical RTS game of the war of 1812, where inexplicably the USA always seems to win...
In as much as the US was the belligerent in the war of 1812 and the Treaty of Ghent resulted in no concessions to either side, I would argue that the US lost the war of 1812 in that the US did not achieve their goal via the war (the issue of impressment just became moot during the war) and did not really succeed in doing much of anything in the end.
The first world war did not originate as a war of conquest, and did not feature a central villain like Hitler or the Nazi party. Most of the major powers didn't even start the war; the Austro-Hungarian empire (which ceased to exist) invaded Serbia after a Yugoslav national assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Everybody else was pulled into the war by a cascading series of alliances and treaties. So, unlike the second world war, there is no clear cut "good guy" and "bad guy" in the first world war.
Heck, the US missed most of the first world war, and Britain was even initially worried that the US would join the central powers rather than the allies! Anyhow, I'm rambling a bit, but my point, if I even have one, is that the first world war isn't nearly as good an analogue as the second world war.
My grandfathers fought on opposing sides, so could you maybe remove the Axis and Allies from future WW2 games? Playing as Switzerland ought to be enough.
Even for massively parallelizable problems like video compression, once you exceed a certain number of nodes doing the work, the time spent assembling the final data actually exceeds the performance win achieved by adding additional processing nodes.
Sure, but we're not that far off. AMD has got 12 core Opteron x86 chips sitting around, and Intel's got 16 thread Xeon chips. Since Moore's law is at least currently alive and well, we might well hit 48 threads in 2-3 years, and 48 cores in 4-5.
Current SSDs tend to use 35nm flash. 25nm flash has been in production for some time, although the quantities produced aren't yet high enough to get into shipping products. Intel's 25nm drives are expected in Q4 of this year (at capacities of 80, 160, 300, and 600 GB).
No, and I'm confused about what's going on here; Linux has had native 64-bit Flash since 2008... In fact, it was the *first* platform to get 64-bit flash.
Our (Canadian, so non-US) non-profit corporation (technically an NGO?) runs an Anime convention. Wouldn't that mean that we're covered by this blanket license?
No. The iPad has a rather pathetic processor for 2010.
It has a 1GHz (single core) Cortex A8. That's pretty much the fastest ARM processor shipping in a handheld device today; there were, if memory serves, a few devices running at 1.2GHz, but there aren't any devices shipping with the Cortex A9 yet. The iPad is still pretty close to the state of the art in handheld-class processors.
No it can't. Not even close.
It's a dual-issue in-order processor, with some decent vector extensions (NEON). It's got more than enough power to decode SD content in software, and I'll stand by my original statement; there's enough power available to do SD in software, but 720p is tricky (and unlikely, especially for anything beyond SP or ASP MPEG-4).
Try your cult-of-Jobs propaganda to someone that hasn't already tried it.
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The gram was originally defined in relation to a cubic centimetre of water (the temperature originally being 0 degrees, later 4 degrees). Then the IPK was made based on this.
So, what's the problem here? Don't we have a fixed reference, the weight of a given volume of water at a given temperature? Why can't we re-calibrate from that?
A boring series that nobody watched got cancelled. Big deal.
All his nonsense about the non-sustainability of the cable television model is bunk, too; SyFy's shows were available on iTunes before NBC pulled them; that didn't really change much. That's the point, anyhow, that the fact that a show was produced for cable doesn't preclude it from showing up on iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, etc.
My bad, she did say it in her interview with Charlie Gibson, and the Huffington Post was referring to that, which caused my confusion.
No, she *did* say it, and SNL mocked it.
More specifically, she said it in an interview with Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/25/palin-talks-russia-with-k_n_129318.html
It was in response to a question asking why Palin was convinced that her proximity to Russia gave her foreign policy experience.
Databases? Like, Oracle, DB2, Pervasive, Sybase? There are a lot of modern enterprise DBMS solutions that run on Linux. I'm tempted to say more than Windows, but that's just a hunch. But since you seem to think that DOS is still relevant in a modern enterprise, I can say conclusively that more modern enterprise DBMS solutions run on Linux than DOS.
Mainly because no modern enterprise DBMS solution runs on DOS.
27.3% is not "most of the computing world". In fact, it won't even be the most popular language in computing for long.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
"Libre" is French (or Spanish), not Latin. The Latin word is "Liber" (note the "er" versus "re").
If you're curious, using overall inflation rates, $69.99 in 1996 is $94.73 in 2009 dollars.
If you want to be pedantic, let's look up the actual definition for "Quantum Leap" from the oxford dictionary:
"a sudden large increase or advance"
How about Princeton WordNet?
"quantum leap, quantum jump (a sudden large increase or advance)"
Dictionary.com?
"any sudden and significant change, advance, or increase."
Cambridge?
"a great improvement or important development in something"
Merriam-Webster?
"an abrupt change, sudden increase, or dramatic advance"
What about in terms of the actual scientific concept of a sudden change in an electron's energy level? The relative distance moved compared to the size of the electron is mind bogglingly enormous.
But with a power budget a hundred times higher, consoles will already be ahead. Yes, portable devices have passed previous gen consoles and will eventually pass current-gen consoles, but remember that current-gen consoles are way behind the curve. The seventh generation began five years ago with the 360, and the sort of hardware that could be produced today (5 years should be roughly 3-4 doublings by Moore's Law) is far more performant than the current consoles on the market.
The fact is, yes, what a mobile device can achieve is rapidly increasing, but no more so than what a non-portable device can achieve. You will always be able to do a lot more with a hundred times the power budget. This will always be the case, and handhelds will never catch up with what a home console produced at the same time could achieve.
Replacing all devices is even less realistic than complementing them... Unless battery technology makes a quantum leap, allowing power densities a hundred times what we have today, power will be an issue for a long time to come; you'll still be limited to a watt or two on a handheld device, while your console will be able to take advantage of a hundred watts or two.
We have always been allied with Eurasia.
You're right that it's commonly used to write foreign words phonetically (or as close as they can get), but you're wrong about the rest of it.
She's the Queen of Canada, not the Queen of England in Canada.
She is independently the Queen of the individual nations; the Queen of England and the Queen of Canada are two different people who happen to inhabit the same body.
Otherwise I will be waiting for the video game of canoeing and collecting beaver pelts etc... which I don't think will be a very good game. That or a historical RTS game of the war of 1812, where inexplicably the USA always seems to win...
In as much as the US was the belligerent in the war of 1812 and the Treaty of Ghent resulted in no concessions to either side, I would argue that the US lost the war of 1812 in that the US did not achieve their goal via the war (the issue of impressment just became moot during the war) and did not really succeed in doing much of anything in the end.
The first world war did not originate as a war of conquest, and did not feature a central villain like Hitler or the Nazi party. Most of the major powers didn't even start the war; the Austro-Hungarian empire (which ceased to exist) invaded Serbia after a Yugoslav national assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Everybody else was pulled into the war by a cascading series of alliances and treaties. So, unlike the second world war, there is no clear cut "good guy" and "bad guy" in the first world war.
Heck, the US missed most of the first world war, and Britain was even initially worried that the US would join the central powers rather than the allies! Anyhow, I'm rambling a bit, but my point, if I even have one, is that the first world war isn't nearly as good an analogue as the second world war.
My grandfathers fought on opposing sides, so could you maybe remove the Axis and Allies from future WW2 games? Playing as Switzerland ought to be enough.
Even for massively parallelizable problems like video compression, once you exceed a certain number of nodes doing the work, the time spent assembling the final data actually exceeds the performance win achieved by adding additional processing nodes.
Clearly you don't work on any of the h.265 proposals. When it takes almost an hour per frame to encode, the number of nodes where assembly time exceeds time savings is astronomical ;)
Sure, but we're not that far off. AMD has got 12 core Opteron x86 chips sitting around, and Intel's got 16 thread Xeon chips. Since Moore's law is at least currently alive and well, we might well hit 48 threads in 2-3 years, and 48 cores in 4-5.
Current SSDs tend to use 35nm flash. 25nm flash has been in production for some time, although the quantities produced aren't yet high enough to get into shipping products. Intel's 25nm drives are expected in Q4 of this year (at capacities of 80, 160, 300, and 600 GB).
No, and I'm confused about what's going on here; Linux has had native 64-bit Flash since 2008... In fact, it was the *first* platform to get 64-bit flash.
So, what part of this is an "about face"?
Our (Canadian, so non-US) non-profit corporation (technically an NGO?) runs an Anime convention. Wouldn't that mean that we're covered by this blanket license?
I guess that our bank is one of those that doesn't allow it, then.
Interac email money transfer forbids the use for any kind of business activity; it's strictly for consumers sending money to each other.
No. The iPad has a rather pathetic processor for 2010.
It has a 1GHz (single core) Cortex A8. That's pretty much the fastest ARM processor shipping in a handheld device today; there were, if memory serves, a few devices running at 1.2GHz, but there aren't any devices shipping with the Cortex A9 yet. The iPad is still pretty close to the state of the art in handheld-class processors.
No it can't. Not even close.
It's a dual-issue in-order processor, with some decent vector extensions (NEON). It's got more than enough power to decode SD content in software, and I'll stand by my original statement; there's enough power available to do SD in software, but 720p is tricky (and unlikely, especially for anything beyond SP or ASP MPEG-4).
Try your cult-of-Jobs propaganda to someone that hasn't already tried it.
I'm a Windows user, you insensitive clod.