In my experience DVI is a bit iffy at 1600x1200 60hz (which is its max). I've found that some monitors are more likely than others to suffer dropouts (often seen as regions of flashing pixels, or green pixels). On a professional DVI capture board with a passthrough that I use at work, 1600x1200 is not usable because of all the dropouts.
With all the advancements we've seen in graphics boards, I'm disappointed screen resolutions haven't gone up very much - the upper end of mainstream has hovered around 1600x1200 for quite a few years.
Ford has a had a great career, and I'm sure he will make more good movies in the future.
However, he is now too old to play Indiana Jones. He'll be 65 when this film comes out. That is just to old to convincingly do things like drag under a truck by hanging on to a bullwhip, or to kick butt in hand-to-hand combat. (Yes, I'm aware stuntmen and not actors do these things, but the actor must look the part).
Ford should do the sort of role Sean Connery did in the earlier film, and pass the torch to a new Indy Jr.
These farmers, rather than demand restitution from the government got off their asses and turned lemons into lemonade.
I would call this Russian Roulette on a large scale. Intentionally crashing tons of scrap metal from high altitude onto neighborhoods is just plain bad policy. Anyone who tolerates this just to make a pittance in the scrap business is an utter fool (and no, I don't believe the claim this was making anybody "rich.")
I think "they charge too much" is shorthand for, "obviously the market isn't operating very efficiently in this case."
The fact is that Bill Gates does less work for each dollar "earned" than a welfare recipient does. I'm not saying that as flamebait, I've worked it out and it's true.
I can't believe there are only 2 instances of the word "oil" in posts rated two or higher on this page!
It's laughable to bother with IP violations as sources of terrorist fuding, compared to the billions of extra dollars pouring into the region due to high oil prices. The idea that the Saudis will go broke and quit supporting terrorism, if only we can get them to pay $13 for their DVDs like everybody else, is so utterly ridiculous that it's almost impossible to refute without resorting to sarcasm. The whole region runs on oil proceeds.
I'm interested to hear why you think the legality of oil sales has any bearing on the potency of the money generated for funding terrorism.
Finally, I question the importance of funding to terrorist operations in the first place. Sure, they need a little money to operate - enough to buy a few boxcutters and a dozen plane tickets. But when a few thousand dollars of terrorist funds can provoke hundreds of billions of dollars in response, something has got to give. We'll never de-fund them enough to win with that ratio.
Especially since the oil windfall has the whole region swimming in money right now.
Different people have different ideas about what makes good software. UI is normally pretty far down my list. What bothers me much more is stuff that just doesn't work.
Wow, how did you get it into your mind that the only alternative to a strip search, is a pat-down? I'd rather take my chances with just the metal detector.
Sadly, this processor will only be useful in graphics applications. It's double-precision floating-point performance isn't very good (about 1/10 of the speed)--all us science types really value double precision performance...
I disagree that double precision should be assumed a requirement for all scientific apps. Most of scientific computing is simulation, and I would argue unrealistic models are almost always a bigger problem than numerical precision!
The APU are also very specialised, so you will ot only have to allow acces to the cell from the OS(and manage those), but you also have to write the userland programs that take advantage of the APU's strong points.
That applies to every program you want to use the apus, so the chance that this happens overnight/soon is pretty slim.
Humbug! Code up an optimized Blas for Lapack, and you will have a vast number of scientific apps ready to burn rubber.
I'm pretty excited about this story, because it means IBM has the intent to make a blade server from the cell. The current state of the product isn't that important. 2.8 TFLOPS from a 7-blade rack sounds awfully good, even if that's just the theoretical max.
If you pull enough water out of the air to supply the water needs of California's farm irrigation, then you have pulled water out that would have rained down upon Arizona (for example).
I'm not so sure. They are pulling out humidity at low altitude very near the sea. I think the dehumidified air would simply be rehumidified by evaporation from the sea. There's no shortage of seawater, nor of solar power to drive the evaporation, and bring the humidity back to stasis.
Of course it's still not free from a thermodynamic standpoint, since they're dissipating the temperature gradient between shallow and deep water.
A raw partition is a portion of a physical disk that is accessed at the lowest possible level. Input/output (I/O) to a raw partition offers approximately a 5% to 10% performance improvement over I/O to a partition with a file system on it.
A RDBMS, instead of the hierarchical DBMS we use for our filesystems, offers your feature, their feature, my feature, all in a package.
It is better to have just the functionality you need than a superset of what you need. Extra stuff just muddles everything, confusing end users, making implemention harder (bugs), and constraining optimization.
Most of what people store on their filesystems just isn't very relational.
The logic programming community already spent a decade or two trying to replace SQL with logic languages like Prolog. SQL vs Prolog is like C vs lisp all over again.
Well, I do have 1 boy and 3 girls, and a CS background, whereas my Mech Eng brother has 3 boys and 1 girl. I'm afraid this conclusively settles the issue - computer science is not real engineering!:)
How much mileage do you think they'll really get out of this, though? The general public knows that some people download movies, just as they know some percentage of people driving their cars to see the movie at theaters were speeding. It doesn't make it OK, but it's just not interesting to hear about anymore.
Meaningful?!?!?! What was the last space ad you saw?!?! Get real.
So far as I'm concerned, the best time to kill it is before somebody is making money off it. By that point, whoever it is will feel entitled to some sort of compromise.
Perhaps the US cannot unilaterally legislate "no billboards in space," but we can say, "nothing advertised in space may be sold in the US" which may be effective enough.
Astronomers aren't my greatest concern. The fact is, looking straight up into the sky is about the *only* place to escape advertising these days.
I hope future civilizations are able to pull back advertising from the ridiculous extremes to which we have taken it. They will look back on us and conclude, rightly, that our central guiding principle was branding.
Well, I suppose it's the natural extension of "intellectual property," isn't it? If thoughts are property, Universities are the biggest pirate ships ever created.
The tool/venue is, by definition not a moral issue. What you do is.
Not true. History shows that a large standing army with the ability to kill the enemy with impuntiy makes it all too tempting to do so. The more unequal the balance of power, the more people die.
I think it's better off without a camera. PDA and cell phone cameras don't have much practical value, and their novelty value is limited.
I don't agree at all. PDAs are desparate for high-bandwidth input, and that's what a camera is.
No more copying down contact information from business cards with the stylus - just snap a quick shot of the business card and be done with it, with no transcription errors. I pull up the call numbers for books I want at the library before I go, and snap photos of the screen - why print out a scrap of paper and carry it around? I've also snapped a photo of a trailhead map for an unexpected hike, part numbers before going to the store, and whiteboards at work.
The image quality of the camera is bad, but that doesn't matter much for capturing information. I only wish the cameras had higher resolution... being able to pull in a whole page of text at once would *really* obsolete paper organizers.
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I do. "My" annoyed me from the first time I saw Windows 95. "My" before everything is childish, superfluous, and not necessarily factual.
With all the advancements we've seen in graphics boards, I'm disappointed screen resolutions haven't gone up very much - the upper end of mainstream has hovered around 1600x1200 for quite a few years.
However, he is now too old to play Indiana Jones. He'll be 65 when this film comes out. That is just to old to convincingly do things like drag under a truck by hanging on to a bullwhip, or to kick butt in hand-to-hand combat. (Yes, I'm aware stuntmen and not actors do these things, but the actor must look the part).
Ford should do the sort of role Sean Connery did in the earlier film, and pass the torch to a new Indy Jr.
But who should that new Indy Jr be?
The fact is that Bill Gates does less work for each dollar "earned" than a welfare recipient does. I'm not saying that as flamebait, I've worked it out and it's true.
It's laughable to bother with IP violations as sources of terrorist fuding, compared to the billions of extra dollars pouring into the region due to high oil prices. The idea that the Saudis will go broke and quit supporting terrorism, if only we can get them to pay $13 for their DVDs like everybody else, is so utterly ridiculous that it's almost impossible to refute without resorting to sarcasm. The whole region runs on oil proceeds.
I'm interested to hear why you think the legality of oil sales has any bearing on the potency of the money generated for funding terrorism.
Finally, I question the importance of funding to terrorist operations in the first place. Sure, they need a little money to operate - enough to buy a few boxcutters and a dozen plane tickets. But when a few thousand dollars of terrorist funds can provoke hundreds of billions of dollars in response, something has got to give. We'll never de-fund them enough to win with that ratio.
Especially since the oil windfall has the whole region swimming in money right now.
Different people have different ideas about what makes good software. UI is normally pretty far down my list. What bothers me much more is stuff that just doesn't work.
Wow, how did you get it into your mind that the only alternative to a strip search, is a pat-down? I'd rather take my chances with just the metal detector.
I'm pretty excited about this story, because it means IBM has the intent to make a blade server from the cell. The current state of the product isn't that important. 2.8 TFLOPS from a 7-blade rack sounds awfully good, even if that's just the theoretical max.
Of course it's still not free from a thermodynamic standpoint, since they're dissipating the temperature gradient between shallow and deep water.
Why would IBM name a PowerPC chip "Xenon", when Intel has been using the confusingly similar "Xeon" for years now?
Most of what people store on their filesystems just isn't very relational.
The logic programming community already spent a decade or two trying to replace SQL with logic languages like Prolog. SQL vs Prolog is like C vs lisp all over again.
Well, I do have 1 boy and 3 girls, and a CS background, whereas my Mech Eng brother has 3 boys and 1 girl. I'm afraid this conclusively settles the issue - computer science is not real engineering! :)
How much mileage do you think they'll really get out of this, though? The general public knows that some people download movies, just as they know some percentage of people driving their cars to see the movie at theaters were speeding. It doesn't make it OK, but it's just not interesting to hear about anymore.
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One of those chuckle-inducing moments.
Perhaps the US cannot unilaterally legislate "no billboards in space," but we can say, "nothing advertised in space may be sold in the US" which may be effective enough.
Astronomers aren't my greatest concern. The fact is, looking straight up into the sky is about the *only* place to escape advertising these days. I hope future civilizations are able to pull back advertising from the ridiculous extremes to which we have taken it. They will look back on us and conclude, rightly, that our central guiding principle was branding.
Well, I suppose it's the natural extension of "intellectual property," isn't it? If thoughts are property, Universities are the biggest pirate ships ever created.
No more copying down contact information from business cards with the stylus - just snap a quick shot of the business card and be done with it, with no transcription errors. I pull up the call numbers for books I want at the library before I go, and snap photos of the screen - why print out a scrap of paper and carry it around? I've also snapped a photo of a trailhead map for an unexpected hike, part numbers before going to the store, and whiteboards at work.
The image quality of the camera is bad, but that doesn't matter much for capturing information. I only wish the cameras had higher resolution... being able to pull in a whole page of text at once would *really* obsolete paper organizers.
Unless the "unusual" behavior was reported before the activities, it's just retrospective finger-pointing. Useless.