If you can get a thousand cores on a chip, and you still only have enough pins for a handful (at best) of memory interfaces, doesn't memory become a HUGE bottleneck? How do these cores not get starved for data?
This is getting pretty pathetic. I am even willing to give XP some credit for being a decent OS, even more so now compared to Vista. (Maybe that is the secret plan, release Vista, demo Windows 7, and then triple the cost of XP since it is "out of support"). But seriously, Vista Aero (Sounds alot like Aqua), then we have the Sideboard vs Dashboard, now multitouch. MS is clearly clueless to what is really happening. They apparently think it is the eye candy wizbang stuff from Apple that makes it attractive. So (true to their origins) they copy Apple innovations and find a stunning way to make them completely useless or unusable.
Bullshit. Microsoft demoed Surface with multi-touch long before the iPhone came out.
2Wire access points also come hard-coded for 56-bit WEP
No, they don't come hard-coded. Rather, they come pre-configured with WEP security enabled. That's an improvement over no security, which is the way most routers are sold. They are also configurable to use WPA and WPA2.
Also consider the fact that this was, according to TFA, a foreign machine that did not recognize dollars (anyone actually believe that?). Well if that were really the case that they couldn't even get the currency right, then I'd expect a the on-screen instructions to be poorly translated at best. It might be showing the wrong currency symbol entirely. Who knows.
It wasn't a foreign machine. It was a Bally S6000 machine. These machines have a bank of DIP switches on the CPU board that are used to set jurisdictional preferences (including foreign jurisdictions). The slot techs screwed that setting up and didn't coin test the game before putting it in service.
I would argue that such issues are a good reason to switch to more heavily privatized models. Ideally, the government would maintain the infrastructure, and anybody who wanted could add power to the grid. That'd be sweet.
In most digital TVs these days, they use a two-dimensional polyphase finite impulse response filter tuned for a certain degree of Gibbs phenomenon (ringing around harder edges) versus detail loss.
That is an awesome sentence. You win the prize for stringing together the most buzzwords.
The reality that an underdeveloped country like Mexico is placing such a high importance on scientific research while the the United States of Jesusland lobotomizes itself really burns, doesn't it?
Try at least reading the summary next time genius:
The $128M telescope is a joint project between Mexico and the US.
In a retail industry that caters exclusively to stupid people
Jokes about voters are just too easy when you set them up like this. Feel free to make up your own.
the machines you are using are probably the low end of the scale.
Essentially all slot machines these days use capacitive touch screen sensors. I've only used one type of touch screen voting machine, and it had a resistive touch screen. Capacitive touch screens are much more durable and difficult to damage than resistive touch screens. Wikipedia doesn't address durability very well, but this page does.
The question is: is voting more like surgery, or casino gambling?
I would say it's more like casino gambling. Surgical equipment is used by highly educated people is a very well controlled environment. Casino gaming is used and abused by people from all walks of life and levels of education (customers and staff). The 70 year old lady sitting in my casino is the same 70 year old lady that is going to have trouble using the touch screen voitng machine.
So why would anyone use low-quality touch-screens for voting machines? The only reason I can see is if they hold voters in complete contempt.
The voting machine vendors (Diebold, et al) are just trying to sell a product and make money from it. If they use cheap touch screens they can always make money later when they have to replace it.
While I agree that people have a hard time knowing what to push I wouldn't blame the screens. If someone can't cobble together a reliable touch interface that doesn't need to be calibrated in the field, for a system will run only one application, they are either incompetent or purposely screwing up. The latter would be my guess.
I work in the casino industry. We have thousands of touch screens and I couldn't disagree with you more. Touch screens suck. Period. There is not a single less reliable piece of equipment in this building. And they don't even have any moving parts.
If all you want to do is rip the audio and video off of the DVD, you don't need the IFO file. All you need are the VOB files. This will only hurt the people that want to legitimately watch the disc on their PCs. Pirates will have no problem getting around this.
And they are clearly Commodore sympathizers, since they parenthetically refer to the TRS-80 as the "Trash-80" for no good reason, without giving the Commode-Door the same treatment.
How can you call them Commodore sympathizers when they completely left the Amiga out of the article? The Amiga was dismissed by many to be nothing more than a game machine - clearly it should have been included.
What I don't understand is... why is gambling deemed such a big deal in the USA? You allow people to drink, smoke, carry guns and prostitute themselves (in some states, at least), but not to bet on certain outcomes. It just seems really bizarre to me, particularly when you allow betting on other outcomes, such as dabbling in the financial markets.
It's all about taxes. You see, drinking, smoking, legal prostitution, etc. are all heavily taxed. If the gov't isn't able to get their cut then they'll try to outlaw it.
there are some people who believe RFID chips are the mark of the beast. and it almost fits for the most part: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a MARK in their right hand, or in their foreheads[...]
This is all post-rapture stuff. If you are worried about taking the mark of the beast, then you must be a believer. If you are a believer, then you will have been raptured before the mark is required and you don't have to worry about it.
If you mess with your WAP to operate outside of legal bands, there is an excellent chance a local ham radio operator will track you down and submit a couple of pounds of evidence to the FCC (or other regulatory body if you are outside of the US) which could (and sometimes does) result in a nice fat fine.
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They are actually required for multi-unit housing developments and commercial properties in California. All such properties must have them by 2010.
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Guess what?! I got a fever, and the only prescription... is more cowbell!
Try this book.
Did the summary writer read the article? Did the editor? Cox is NOT Time Warner.
An article at Ars has a much more realistic viewpoint on this Telegraph article.
Biannually. Please stop making up words.
If you are in the military, you are allowed to drink in bars on the base.
22 pages to talk about mice? No thanks.
Essentially all slot machines these days use capacitive touch screen sensors. I've only used one type of touch screen voting machine, and it had a resistive touch screen. Capacitive touch screens are much more durable and difficult to damage than resistive touch screens. Wikipedia doesn't address durability very well, but this page does.
I would say it's more like casino gambling. Surgical equipment is used by highly educated people is a very well controlled environment. Casino gaming is used and abused by people from all walks of life and levels of education (customers and staff). The 70 year old lady sitting in my casino is the same 70 year old lady that is going to have trouble using the touch screen voitng machine.
The voting machine vendors (Diebold, et al) are just trying to sell a product and make money from it. If they use cheap touch screens they can always make money later when they have to replace it.
If all you want to do is rip the audio and video off of the DVD, you don't need the IFO file. All you need are the VOB files. This will only hurt the people that want to legitimately watch the disc on their PCs. Pirates will have no problem getting around this.
Flying on a one-way ticket will always earn you and/or your luggage additional scrutiny.
It's all about taxes. You see, drinking, smoking, legal prostitution, etc. are all heavily taxed. If the gov't isn't able to get their cut then they'll try to outlaw it.
there are some people who believe RFID chips are the mark of the beast. and it almost fits for the most part: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a MARK in their right hand, or in their foreheads[...]
This is all post-rapture stuff. If you are worried about taking the mark of the beast, then you must be a believer. If you are a believer, then you will have been raptured before the mark is required and you don't have to worry about it.
If you mess with your WAP to operate outside of legal bands, there is an excellent chance a local ham radio operator will track you down and submit a couple of pounds of evidence to the FCC (or other regulatory body if you are outside of the US) which could (and sometimes does) result in a nice fat fine.
The FCC normally sends a warning letter first.