PHB: "You need a computer to use the alarm clock? One of the prerequisites for owning one of these clocks is a $1000 piece of hardware?"....
Designer: No, it plays normal CDs too. We're targetting the several million people that use MP3s and have computers in addition to the 200 million that use CDs.
Not at all, in fact there are ALREADY commercially available systems that use the timing differences between the commercial and military signals to better model ionospheric interference.
I was referring to the military signal, which is quite hard to get access to. It may have something to do with it's ability to guide a cruise missile through a window at speed.
Ocean Navigator carried an article a few years ago about how the number of people "lost at sea" reported by the US Coast Guard had *increased* since GPS was invented!
So, stupid people went out to sea unprepared, and got killed. It's not exactly a bad thing.
The military signal with enough statellites could easily allow you to send a missile from any where in the world to a picnic table with a can of soda on it and have the missile just skim the top of the can. It is damn accurate and the military takes no chances with it.
Isn't the kill radius of a 500lb bomb something like 400 feet? Even with SA, a decent missile could hit any spot you care to name.
Good luck with that. Youll need tp crack fairly strong crypto that's backed up by guys with guns. Personally, I'd rather build a cheapo cruise missile with INS and nape of the earth flight software.
I don't really agree with the ruling, but in all fairness, the joke was about lighting him on fire. If that happened, I wouldn't really cry about it, but I can see how the SS would have concerns about the whole thing. If someone had joked about killing Kim while in DPRK, they'd probably take him out back and shoot him.
Simply falling outside of statistical parameters will guarantee you an audit.
According to the IRS, fraud is rather common, and they lack the resources to pursue all of it. The largest incident of tax fraud that went unpunished in recent years is aroud $50M, so you can defraud uncle sam if you're smart about it and don't make a lot of noise. Naturally, there's risk associated, but you choose your own comfort level.
THE REAL treasure here is knowing the brain can adapt. Think about it, they were deprived of sight, and then their brain was able to REORGANIZE itself to understand totally FOREIGN signals and use them as input.
Haven't we known that for a while? That's why surgical scars feel weird for a bit, then settle down - the nerve pattern got messed up.
Any links to back that up? The only confirmed unit loss consoles I know of are the Xbox and the dreamcast. Everything else (to my knowledge) has been profitable. I looked around and the only sites that are claiming that the PSP is sold at a loss are 1up.com and some people on the chat forums. I also found a bunch of posts claiming that Sony expects to not sell the hardware at a loss. Perhaps the initial allocation was sold cheap to create buzz?
I have no doubt that it will have very strong performance in the areas for which it was designed, but it is doubtful that it will be replacing current desktop chips or server chips (including the desktop chips from IBM).
My thoughts run exactly counter. This is the sort of thing that Sony could leverage into a general computer setup, what with the unitized compute power. With the cell architecture, a lot of complex stuff can be scaled nearly linearly, and at low cost. I'm curious to see if that pans out, especially of this shows up in a powermac. Hell, every time I see this stuff, I think of shaowrun.
They'll be cheap because Sony will take a loss on the console and make the money off of the games. Just like MS did with the Xbox. The question is just how much of a loss on the unit can Sony accept?
Why whould they do that when they haven't had to before. It's not like they're anything but the preeminent console maker of the last several years. You think Sony would get away with loss-leader consoles when we have all those anti-dumping statutes?
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I've never even met a VC++ user who could even write C/C++ without the environment.
Then you've never met a windows shell programmer.
PHB: "You need a computer to use the alarm clock? One of the prerequisites for owning one of these clocks is a $1000 piece of hardware?" ....
Designer: No, it plays normal CDs too. We're targetting the several million people that use MP3s and have computers in addition to the 200 million that use CDs.
Not at all, in fact there are ALREADY commercially available systems that use the timing differences between the commercial and military signals to better model ionospheric interference.
I was referring to the military signal, which is quite hard to get access to. It may have something to do with it's ability to guide a cruise missile through a window at speed.
did you add the HTML strict (or whatever) declaration for IE? If you don't, it assumes that you want broken behavior.
But how will that help defeat the Evil Terrorists ?
Actually, we love the evil terrorists, so we'd never want to defeat them. We must - after all, we're making so many of them.
find . -name '*log*' -print will give you the paths too.
Wrong. .22c (1/5th the speed of light). You were off by a factor of 100 - you forgot to handle the percentage...
Nope, I got .0022c. There's no percentage involved - c is a unit velocity.
Ocean Navigator carried an article a few years ago about how the number of people "lost at sea" reported by the US Coast Guard had *increased* since GPS was invented!
So, stupid people went out to sea unprepared, and got killed. It's not exactly a bad thing.
The military signal with enough statellites could easily allow you to send a missile from any where in the world to a picnic table with a can of soda on it and have the missile just skim the top of the can. It is damn accurate and the military takes no chances with it.
Isn't the kill radius of a 500lb bomb something like 400 feet? Even with SA, a decent missile could hit any spot you care to name.
sounds like a hardware hacking project to me ;)
Good luck with that. Youll need tp crack fairly strong crypto that's backed up by guys with guns. Personally, I'd rather build a cheapo cruise missile with INS and nape of the earth flight software.
How e-mail is killing the sales of postage stamps.
It is, actually. When was the last time you mailed a letter?
I don't really agree with the ruling, but in all fairness, the joke was about lighting him on fire. If that happened, I wouldn't really cry about it, but I can see how the SS would have concerns about the whole thing. If someone had joked about killing Kim while in DPRK, they'd probably take him out back and shoot him.
Simply falling outside of statistical parameters will guarantee you an audit.
According to the IRS, fraud is rather common, and they lack the resources to pursue all of it. The largest incident of tax fraud that went unpunished in recent years is aroud $50M, so you can defraud uncle sam if you're smart about it and don't make a lot of noise. Naturally, there's risk associated, but you choose your own comfort level.
It's called service "IN-KIND" and it has value. Just because you don't use money in the transaction doesn't mean you haven't generated income.
Try and track it. Sure it technically isn't legal, but they make up for it by blowing billions on corporate welfare.
And this is different from any other government how?
Well, in the DPRK, they jailed a woman for a few weeks for asking why Kim was the only chubby guy in the country.
Peak fuel efficiency is reached somewhere around 55-60mph, on average.
How is that relevant? Speed limits are currently pitched as a safety issue.
Any word yet on those muscular implants?
I guess so...
THE REAL treasure here is knowing the brain can adapt. Think about it, they were deprived of sight, and then their brain was able to REORGANIZE itself to understand totally FOREIGN signals and use them as input.
Haven't we known that for a while? That's why surgical scars feel weird for a bit, then settle down - the nerve pattern got messed up.
Any links to back that up? The only confirmed unit loss consoles I know of are the Xbox and the dreamcast. Everything else (to my knowledge) has been profitable. I looked around and the only sites that are claiming that the PSP is sold at a loss are 1up.com and some people on the chat forums. I also found a bunch of posts claiming that Sony expects to not sell the hardware at a loss. Perhaps the initial allocation was sold cheap to create buzz?
XMMS uses 62MB of virtual memory to play a small MP3.
And it's actual foot print is 5M. The 60M is probably mmaped libraries and the mp3 file.
Well, the process can still be paged out. So you don't really gain anything from doing that.
Not too likely, unless you thrash the memory.
Not many people exceed 100 mph, or corner a 1g+, but they still buy sports cars...
I can do both and I've only got 140hp ;)
I have no doubt that it will have very strong performance in the areas for which it was designed, but it is doubtful that it will be replacing current desktop chips or server chips (including the desktop chips from IBM).
My thoughts run exactly counter. This is the sort of thing that Sony could leverage into a general computer setup, what with the unitized compute power. With the cell architecture, a lot of complex stuff can be scaled nearly linearly, and at low cost. I'm curious to see if that pans out, especially of this shows up in a powermac. Hell, every time I see this stuff, I think of shaowrun.
Nintendo is being so tight-lipped about the next-gen "Revolution" system that nobody knows what its specs will be.
How is this a surprise? nintdo never talks about what it's doing - it's like a cult or something...
They'll be cheap because Sony will take a loss on the console and make the money off of the games. Just like MS did with the Xbox. The question is just how much of a loss on the unit can Sony accept?
Why whould they do that when they haven't had to before. It's not like they're anything but the preeminent console maker of the last several years. You think Sony would get away with loss-leader consoles when we have all those anti-dumping statutes?