"Doubling the resolution increases four times the calculation time."
Not true at all. The density of the impedance matrix has nothing to do with screen resolution. It only has to do with the physical size of the objects in the scene releative to the wavelength of light incident upon them. You could have one mesh node per pixel, but that would be computational suicide. If you _did_ have one node per pixel, then your mesh would be so dense that you could use a dirac-delta basis function and avoid a lot of the interpolatory calculation that is involved with coarser mesh densities.
A ray-tracing problem can be solved simultaneously using a moment method that incorporates physical optics. I wrote my Master's thesis a long time ago that did precisely that for 2-dimensional situations. Of course, this required solving massive linear systems that, at the time I wrote it, took hours on a 433MHz Alpha to do a single frame, and it was written in FORTRAN77, but hey, we've come a long way since then:)
Ok, so say the parents set the speed limit at 55... so what if the speed limit is 25? The kid can go 30MPH over the speed limit and the parents would be none the wiser. What about smoking the tires at a red light, or racing? This won't pick it up at all.
I developed a system for a friend of mine to put in his kid's car that uses a MEMS accelerometer. We don't care so much about speed, but rather when the kid is accelerating, either longitudinally or laterally, at unacceptable levels. Basically, if he guns it, takes corners too fast, or brakes hard, we know about it. These factors are far more associated with reckless driving than is velocity. My device also logs the positions of all three pedals and also what gear the gearbox is in.
This not only keeps the kid driving safe, but also allows him to analyze his kid's Solo-2 runs.
Well, for starters, Pizza is not Italian food. It was invented right here in the good ole' US of A. You cannot get pizza in Italy. Anywhere.
You have a point about the dot com, but there were many many people who invested their life savings in companies like Enron and Adelphia that went completely belly up. These people number in the millions. There are similarly many people who invested money they haven't earned yet buying a house that was overpriced by a factor of two, at an interest rate that has gone up 4% since they bought.
Let me explain a little about the foreclosure process and why China won't be hurting so bad. First of all, Chinese investors will own the property that is being foreclosed upon. They will have the option of either owning it for the value of the note at the time of foreclosure, which is likely to be about the market value of the home. Remember what I said about the crash in the housing market being one due to increasing payments, not decreasing values? Values have still been rising, just at a much slower or flattish rate. However, the payment required to maintain ownership has absolutely skyrocketed for people with ARMs. They can no longer afford the payments, but the value of the house is still roughly in the range of the value of the note. So, the Chinese aren't losing anything, and the Americans are losing their homes.
When a home is foreclosed upon, the lender has two options. They can either sell the home at auction for market value, or they can apply the appraised value (the lowest one they can find) of the home against the note and send the former owner either a bill for the difference, or a check for any equity there may have been, minus lots of fees (which 99% of the time result in turning equity, no matter how large, into a debt for the former owner). If the lender elects to offset the loan, they become the owner of the property.
So, let's say Sallie and Joe Spender bought a 750k home (typical for a McMansion in the philly suburbs) with a 3/1 Interest-Only ARM with an initial of 4.25% and prime + 1% thereafter in 2003, and put the minimum 3% down. The loan has a balloon payment at 10 years. The value of the home depreciated to 550k in 2006 at the same time the ARM adjusted from 4.25% to 9.25%. This is a very bad situation for the Spenders. Their payment was $2567.71 on the interest-only ARM at 4.25%, but has suddenly increased to $5588.54 at 9.25%. This is more than double.
So, the Spenders are nearly 200k in the hole, meaning they cannot sell the home for what they owe on it, and their payment has more than doubled, and assuming they can stick this mess out for 10 years, they have to make a balloon payment at 10 years, which they won't be able to do because of the depreciation. Balloon payment IO/ARMs were great if you knew the price of the home was going to go way up - you could just refinance or sell at the time the balloon was due. But, if the home depreciates, you are royally SCREWED.
The Spenders have no other choice but to give up the home. The lender forecloses, decides to keep the property, applies the 550k value against the 725k mortgage, and the Spenders are left with a bill for 225k that is due and payable immediately. There goes the Spenders' life savings, if they had any. If not, they'll be first in line at Bankruptcy court, at which they will be put on a payment plan for the 225k under the new Bankruptcy laws.
So, you see, the Chinese have absolutely nothing to worry about. Our current government has all but guaranteed that less-than-savvy americans will be slaves to Chinese loan sharks for eternity.
"Scientists have conclusive proof that dark matter exists. This does not rule out the possibility that dark matter doesn't exist, but is fascinating nonetheless!"
Having to list an item 4 times on ebay to sell it is not indicative of a management lapse at ebay, but rather that either the seller has a misguided idea of the value of their product, or the economy is not as good now as it used to be. I vote option B.
What our government is trying to hide from us is that the world economy is in the beginning of a horrific collapse, which will go down in history as being sparked by the depletion of our energy resources and resulting price spike. Our government lied to us all throughout the 1990's about how great the economy was, and the resulting crash left many people penniless. Then, the government "fixed" the problem by creating another artificial boom, this one in housing. For the past 5 years, people have been hyper-extending themselves on adjustable mortgages to buy houses they couldn't really afford. Now that the economy has seen all the benefit it can from the second artificial boom, the housing market has crashed (not in terms of value, but in terms of peoples' monthly payments on their ARM), the government has nowhere to go.
We are about to see an implosion in the housing market that is going to make the dot-bust of the 1990's look like losing a quarter in a slot machine. We are at a point where we can no longer control inflation because we have sent enough money overseas that foreign governments now control the supply of US currency in the world. We BORROWED the money we sent them against the hyper-inflated housing values we created artifically in the early 2000s. Now, all the foreign governments like China and Iran have to do is flood the world with those borrowed US dollars to drive hyper-inflation in the US. Combine that with a crash in the only assets in the US that have real value, and the rest of the world will simply be able to buy us out.
Scary... truly scary... so your ebay problems are a lot bigger than you think...
We cannot simply exploit these living animals for our own selfish needs. These bacteria need to be allowed free range so they can live healthy, happy, natural lives without human oppression. We have a consistent track record of exploiting animals for our own use - even torturing them for our own entertainment. These bacteria need to be protected immediately! Oh won't someone please think of the bacteria!
The technically superior standard almost never wins in the US.
We chose x86 over PPC We chose VHS over BetaMax We chose 8VSB over OFDM (for HDTV Broadcasting) We chose CDMA over GSM (only just now starting to change) And now we will probably end up with BluRay because of some gaming console... (PS3)
Hah! Look folks! I'm going to put peanut butter on this sheet of Kevlar. BAM!!! See? The bullet didn't go through! Bullet-proof peanut butter! Only $49.95 while supplies last! Better hurry!
Combine this with an auto-routing GPS and you'll be all set. Your phone/pda can automatically route you around heavy traffic. This has environmental consequences, too. If we could all be directed in such a way that minimizes traffic bottlenecks, we'll use a lot less fuel.
The fact that Intel sells a broader scope of product does not logically make AMD a niche vendor. By your logic, a company that sells 1E6 different products is a niche vendor if there exists in the market another vendor that sells 1E6+1 products.
Why don't you try to make an argument that postulates that AMD is focused on a niche market, and then provide some evidence that supports it? Oh, I know, because that's not possible. AMD has too broad a product offering to be considered a niche vendor. If there were only a CPU company, fine. Only an Ethernet PHY company, fine. But, they sell dozens of product lines in various different markets. Thus, they cannot be considered a niche vendor.
As a fellow Honeyweller, I am glad that I have the opportunity to seek out expanded roles and learn new things. If I were just expected to sit in my cube all the time doing the same damned thing for 30 years, I'd go out of my mind. Here, I have the opportunity to get involved in project/program management, test, architecture, system engineering, you name it. I find that it's actually a ton of fun to take on new stuff...
Although I wish HON were better about compensation, I have to admit the benefits are outstanding..
I calculated once that my preferred vehicle (bicycle) gets over 200 MPG easily and probably even more, considering $3/gal for gas. It basically boils down to this.
How many calories can I buy for $3? Assuming pasta is $0.50/lb, I can get about 10k calories for $3, which is enough for about 200-250 miles of riding depending upon how fast I am going. Crusing at my normal speed of about 22-23MPH, I figure 40cal/mile... at an elevated cruise of 26MPH, I figure about 60cal/mile. Climbing a 12% grade gives about 100cal/mile. So, if I'm on a flat ride, the number is up in the 250 range and on a hilly ride, it could be as low as *gasp* 150.
This is an order of magnitude greater than the mileage my SUV gets... although I haven't yet figured out how to haul a load of 2x4s from Lowes to my house on the bike yet...
However, if all goes well, although Vista may be delayed until 2007, Intel's Core 2 processors will give you a very good reason to upgrade this year.
As impressive as the Intel fanboys make these processors out to be, we are all going to continue to suffer from the same paradigm - faster hardware means software gets more bloated. Seriously folks, how many thousands of dollars have we all spent on new computer hardware only to have it slowed down again by bigger bloatware from MS? Why is Vista so much better than XP? Why was XP any better than Win2k? Why was Win2k any better than Win98SE? What did Win95 give us that was so revolutionary besides the ability to keenly mis-detect hardware? To me, the progression of windows has only been to add more and more eye candy.... I haven't seen that much more _useful_ functionality added to windows since 3.1 (which I still use on my 486-100Mhz machine, which by the way accomplishes all of my office, web browsing, and other day to day needs just fine)...
It seems more and more when I try to find something on google all I get are a bunch of link farms. This morning I was trying to find a bike jersey for a friend of mine and on the first page of results, it took getting to the second page to find any actual results. I did much better using Yahoo and found what I was looking for on the first page of results.
This is just one example, but it happens constantly...
The main difference between Organic X-anes and Alcohols is that alcohols readily mix with water. This is why, even though alcohols burn more cleanly, we use X-anes for fuel. Alcohols are difficult to store and transport because they'll suck water out of anything, reducing their BTU density. They also have a much lower heat of vaporization, so they evaporate more quickly.
Has anyone noticed that you can smell the ethyl alcohol in the new reformulated gas that is being sold? That kinda freaked me out the first time I noticed it. Smelled like Jagermeister... or Robitussin, depending on which you prefer...
I checked out the allofmp3 site and listened to a bunch of the preview songs, and it looks like the majority of songs on there are just covers for the actual song. Case and point, Carito by Carlos Vives is obviously not done by the original artist. I found many many more cases just like it. This particular case was really bad - the words weren't even right, and the singer is obviously a gringo:)
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"Doubling the resolution increases four times the calculation time."
Not true at all. The density of the impedance matrix has nothing to do with screen resolution. It only has to do with the physical size of the objects in the scene releative to the wavelength of light incident upon them. You could have one mesh node per pixel, but that would be computational suicide. If you _did_ have one node per pixel, then your mesh would be so dense that you could use a dirac-delta basis function and avoid a lot of the interpolatory calculation that is involved with coarser mesh densities.
A ray-tracing problem can be solved simultaneously using a moment method that incorporates physical optics. I wrote my Master's thesis a long time ago that did precisely that for 2-dimensional situations. Of course, this required solving massive linear systems that, at the time I wrote it, took hours on a 433MHz Alpha to do a single frame, and it was written in FORTRAN77, but hey, we've come a long way since then :)
Besides, since when is first motherfucking place so motherfucking bad?
Blahbedy Blah Blah Blah
Ok, so say the parents set the speed limit at 55... so what if the speed limit is 25? The kid can go 30MPH over the speed limit and the parents would be none the wiser. What about smoking the tires at a red light, or racing? This won't pick it up at all.
I developed a system for a friend of mine to put in his kid's car that uses a MEMS accelerometer. We don't care so much about speed, but rather when the kid is accelerating, either longitudinally or laterally, at unacceptable levels. Basically, if he guns it, takes corners too fast, or brakes hard, we know about it. These factors are far more associated with reckless driving than is velocity. My device also logs the positions of all three pedals and also what gear the gearbox is in.
This not only keeps the kid driving safe, but also allows him to analyze his kid's Solo-2 runs.
Also, Check out this PDF:
http://www.abiworld.org/statcharts/CDebt.pdf
You can see bankruptcy filings have been steadily increasing in the past 25 years or so...
Well, for starters, Pizza is not Italian food. It was invented right here in the good ole' US of A. You cannot get pizza in Italy. Anywhere.
You have a point about the dot com, but there were many many people who invested their life savings in companies like Enron and Adelphia that went completely belly up. These people number in the millions. There are similarly many people who invested money they haven't earned yet buying a house that was overpriced by a factor of two, at an interest rate that has gone up 4% since they bought.
Let me explain a little about the foreclosure process and why China won't be hurting so bad. First of all, Chinese investors will own the property that is being foreclosed upon. They will have the option of either owning it for the value of the note at the time of foreclosure, which is likely to be about the market value of the home. Remember what I said about the crash in the housing market being one due to increasing payments, not decreasing values? Values have still been rising, just at a much slower or flattish rate. However, the payment required to maintain ownership has absolutely skyrocketed for people with ARMs. They can no longer afford the payments, but the value of the house is still roughly in the range of the value of the note. So, the Chinese aren't losing anything, and the Americans are losing their homes.
When a home is foreclosed upon, the lender has two options. They can either sell the home at auction for market value, or they can apply the appraised value (the lowest one they can find) of the home against the note and send the former owner either a bill for the difference, or a check for any equity there may have been, minus lots of fees (which 99% of the time result in turning equity, no matter how large, into a debt for the former owner). If the lender elects to offset the loan, they become the owner of the property.
So, let's say Sallie and Joe Spender bought a 750k home (typical for a McMansion in the philly suburbs) with a 3/1 Interest-Only ARM with an initial of 4.25% and prime + 1% thereafter in 2003, and put the minimum 3% down. The loan has a balloon payment at 10 years. The value of the home depreciated to 550k in 2006 at the same time the ARM adjusted from 4.25% to 9.25%. This is a very bad situation for the Spenders. Their payment was $2567.71 on the interest-only ARM at 4.25%, but has suddenly increased to $5588.54 at 9.25%. This is more than double.
So, the Spenders are nearly 200k in the hole, meaning they cannot sell the home for what they owe on it, and their payment has more than doubled, and assuming they can stick this mess out for 10 years, they have to make a balloon payment at 10 years, which they won't be able to do because of the depreciation. Balloon payment IO/ARMs were great if you knew the price of the home was going to go way up - you could just refinance or sell at the time the balloon was due. But, if the home depreciates, you are royally SCREWED.
The Spenders have no other choice but to give up the home. The lender forecloses, decides to keep the property, applies the 550k value against the 725k mortgage, and the Spenders are left with a bill for 225k that is due and payable immediately. There goes the Spenders' life savings, if they had any. If not, they'll be first in line at Bankruptcy court, at which they will be put on a payment plan for the 225k under the new Bankruptcy laws.
So, you see, the Chinese have absolutely nothing to worry about. Our current government has all but guaranteed that less-than-savvy americans will be slaves to Chinese loan sharks for eternity.
"Scientists have conclusive proof that dark matter exists. This does not rule out the possibility that dark matter doesn't exist, but is fascinating nonetheless!"
Having to list an item 4 times on ebay to sell it is not indicative of a management lapse at ebay, but rather that either the seller has a misguided idea of the value of their product, or the economy is not as good now as it used to be. I vote option B.
What our government is trying to hide from us is that the world economy is in the beginning of a horrific collapse, which will go down in history as being sparked by the depletion of our energy resources and resulting price spike. Our government lied to us all throughout the 1990's about how great the economy was, and the resulting crash left many people penniless. Then, the government "fixed" the problem by creating another artificial boom, this one in housing. For the past 5 years, people have been hyper-extending themselves on adjustable mortgages to buy houses they couldn't really afford. Now that the economy has seen all the benefit it can from the second artificial boom, the housing market has crashed (not in terms of value, but in terms of peoples' monthly payments on their ARM), the government has nowhere to go.
We are about to see an implosion in the housing market that is going to make the dot-bust of the 1990's look like losing a quarter in a slot machine. We are at a point where we can no longer control inflation because we have sent enough money overseas that foreign governments now control the supply of US currency in the world. We BORROWED the money we sent them against the hyper-inflated housing values we created artifically in the early 2000s. Now, all the foreign governments like China and Iran have to do is flood the world with those borrowed US dollars to drive hyper-inflation in the US. Combine that with a crash in the only assets in the US that have real value, and the rest of the world will simply be able to buy us out.
Scary... truly scary... so your ebay problems are a lot bigger than you think...
How do you know that under the hood is the right place to look?
... is when the "draft" standard becomes the "real" standard.
Time to start regulating CO2 emissions on mars!
We cannot simply exploit these living animals for our own selfish needs. These bacteria need to be allowed free range so they can live healthy, happy, natural lives without human oppression. We have a consistent track record of exploiting animals for our own use - even torturing them for our own entertainment. These bacteria need to be protected immediately! Oh won't someone please think of the bacteria!
The technically superior standard almost never wins in the US.
We chose x86 over PPC
We chose VHS over BetaMax
We chose 8VSB over OFDM (for HDTV Broadcasting)
We chose CDMA over GSM (only just now starting to change)
And now we will probably end up with BluRay because of some gaming console... (PS3)
Hah! Look folks! I'm going to put peanut butter on this sheet of Kevlar. BAM!!! See? The bullet didn't go through! Bullet-proof peanut butter! Only $49.95 while supplies last! Better hurry!
Combine this with an auto-routing GPS and you'll be all set. Your phone/pda can automatically route you around heavy traffic. This has environmental consequences, too. If we could all be directed in such a way that minimizes traffic bottlenecks, we'll use a lot less fuel.
I couldn't find anything even remotely nerdy in this story...
Slashdot is turning into yet another K5...
The fact that Intel sells a broader scope of product does not logically make AMD a niche vendor. By your logic, a company that sells 1E6 different products is a niche vendor if there exists in the market another vendor that sells 1E6+1 products.
Why don't you try to make an argument that postulates that AMD is focused on a niche market, and then provide some evidence that supports it? Oh, I know, because that's not possible. AMD has too broad a product offering to be considered a niche vendor. If there were only a CPU company, fine. Only an Ethernet PHY company, fine. But, they sell dozens of product lines in various different markets. Thus, they cannot be considered a niche vendor.
"AMD has always been a niche vendor."
Are you smoking crack? AMD has most certainly NEVER been a niche vender...
CPUs
FLASH
SRAM
PLDs
Embedded Processors
Microcontrollers
Ethernet Controllers and PHYs
What niche exactly are you talking about here?
As a fellow Honeyweller, I am glad that I have the opportunity to seek out expanded roles and learn new things. If I were just expected to sit in my cube all the time doing the same damned thing for 30 years, I'd go out of my mind. Here, I have the opportunity to get involved in project/program management, test, architecture, system engineering, you name it. I find that it's actually a ton of fun to take on new stuff...
Although I wish HON were better about compensation, I have to admit the benefits are outstanding..
I calculated once that my preferred vehicle (bicycle) gets over 200 MPG easily and probably even more, considering $3/gal for gas. It basically boils down to this.
How many calories can I buy for $3? Assuming pasta is $0.50/lb, I can get about 10k calories for $3, which is enough for about 200-250 miles of riding depending upon how fast I am going. Crusing at my normal speed of about 22-23MPH, I figure 40cal/mile... at an elevated cruise of 26MPH, I figure about 60cal/mile. Climbing a 12% grade gives about 100cal/mile. So, if I'm on a flat ride, the number is up in the 250 range and on a hilly ride, it could be as low as *gasp* 150.
This is an order of magnitude greater than the mileage my SUV gets... although I haven't yet figured out how to haul a load of 2x4s from Lowes to my house on the bike yet...
From anandtech's article:
However, if all goes well, although Vista may be delayed until 2007, Intel's Core 2 processors will give you a very good reason to upgrade this year.
As impressive as the Intel fanboys make these processors out to be, we are all going to continue to suffer from the same paradigm - faster hardware means software gets more bloated. Seriously folks, how many thousands of dollars have we all spent on new computer hardware only to have it slowed down again by bigger bloatware from MS? Why is Vista so much better than XP? Why was XP any better than Win2k? Why was Win2k any better than Win98SE? What did Win95 give us that was so revolutionary besides the ability to keenly mis-detect hardware? To me, the progression of windows has only been to add more and more eye candy.... I haven't seen that much more _useful_ functionality added to windows since 3.1 (which I still use on my 486-100Mhz machine, which by the way accomplishes all of my office, web browsing, and other day to day needs just fine)...
It seems more and more when I try to find something on google all I get are a bunch of link farms. This morning I was trying to find a bike jersey for a friend of mine and on the first page of results, it took getting to the second page to find any actual results. I did much better using Yahoo and found what I was looking for on the first page of results.
This is just one example, but it happens constantly...
many people have died from drinking methyl alcohol. Your body metabolizes Methyl Alcohol into formaldehyde, which kills you slowly and painfully.
Booze is ETHYL alcohol.
Methyl = CH3OH
Ethyl = C2H5OH
Propyl = C3H7OH
Butyl = C4H9OH
Pentyl = C5H11OH
Hexyl = C6H13OH
Septyl = C7H15OH
Octyl = C8H17OH (Octane is C8H18)
The main difference between Organic X-anes and Alcohols is that alcohols readily mix with water. This is why, even though alcohols burn more cleanly, we use X-anes for fuel. Alcohols are difficult to store and transport because they'll suck water out of anything, reducing their BTU density. They also have a much lower heat of vaporization, so they evaporate more quickly.
Has anyone noticed that you can smell the ethyl alcohol in the new reformulated gas that is being sold? That kinda freaked me out the first time I noticed it. Smelled like Jagermeister... or Robitussin, depending on which you prefer...
I checked out the allofmp3 site and listened to a bunch of the preview songs, and it looks like the majority of songs on there are just covers for the actual song. Case and point, Carito by Carlos Vives is obviously not done by the original artist. I found many many more cases just like it. This particular case was really bad - the words weren't even right, and the singer is obviously a gringo :)
Remember the rule - you get what you pay for.