Does this mean it's 16:9 widescreen in the third and fourth dimensions?
Does the Monolith support 1080p? At any rate, I hear that they're extremely black and non-reflective, so contrast and saturation should be absolutely excellent on them. Plus I hear that these are *very* smart TVs.
They'll still be out-of-date in a couple of years time, though.
You aren't supposed to eat meat, because human beings can't chase animals and catch them with our bare hands, (there's a big clue right there), and we can't kill them with our bare hands - our jaws don't open far enough to kill even a small pig, let alone a sheep, a cow, etc. Show me video footage of a human chasing down a healthy sheep, and killing it and eating it with his bare hands and teeth.
This assumes that the "natural" order of things is what a human can do with their bare hands and no tools. But many would argue that it's our ability to move beyond our physical limitations that makes us human, and indeed that we could no longer rely on surviving on that alone. Some have argued that human evolution may even have been driven by cooking.
One can argue about that particular assertion, but I'd question in general any argument that's reliant on what a human can do with absolutely no technology, as it's really not what humans are about.
If they could come up with a food substitute that was purely for sensation / making you feel full, and we all just took pills to actually get nutritional content.. I'd be all for it.
I dunno, they did something similar to that with chewing gum in the early 1970s that was supposed to approximate a three course meal. If I remember correctly, it ended up badly with the blueberry pie dessert course.
I think they made a hard-hitting movie dramatisation of it...
To clarify this, you're right that the original versions of the ZX80 and ZX81 both had 1KB onboard.
However, the US version of the ZX81 (the Timex Sinclair 1000) shipped with 2KB onboard, which is probably what the GP was thinking of.
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Can they program something fun and useful in 4K using the programming languages available a 2600?
Bear in mind that the 4KB was maximum size of a standard (non bank-switched) *ROM* cartridge.
Of course, one would need some RAM for keeping track of variables, data, etc. as well, and the 2600 had some onboard- a grand total of 128 *bytes*!
Plus, there was no screen memory as such, just the graphics chip registers which held enough data to generate one line, and had to be updated every time you wanted a subsequent line to be different.
Correct me if any of the following is wrong (I am *not* an expert in the field).
However, one problem with saying (in general) that "any method for finding the optimal solution to such and such is provably NP complete" is that it *only* covers finding the optimal solution in every case. AFAIK in some cases, algorithms may exist (or be proven to exist) that will provably generate a result that (while not optimal) will be within a small percentage of the optimal result, and that may be almost good enough in practice.
Whether that's the case here, I don't know, as I'm unclear what you meant by "using state of the art techniques it is possible to optimize blocks of up to 9 or 10 instructions, which is still much below the actual numbers needed". Did you mean techniques to always generate *the* optimal scheduling, or did you mean "optimize" in a more general sense?
The fact that Knuth saw fit to make that comment, suggests that it's the latter, unfortunately- and the fact that if there was an algorithm that got within 99.9999% of optimal without being NP-complete, I'm sure they would have used it already and it wouldn't be an issue.
If [..] you had the time/budget to write Itanium-specific assembler, you'd love Itanium (64 64-bit registers is nice)
I thought one of the major problems with Itanium was that it used EPIC architecture which relies heavily on the compiler explicitly figuring out how the parallel instructions should be scheduled (rather than the CPU itself doing this at runtime)... except that apparently such a compiler was never really written.
(Interesting quote I just came across in the Itanium WP article from Donald Knuth- "The Itanium approach...was supposed to be so terrific- until it turned out that the wished-for compilers were basically impossible to write".)
The ad says $9.99 plus sales tax which they often say anyway and tags used within the store are printed locally. It is doable but no store would consider it unless it's forced on them which I suspect the government does no want. It's easier to hide sale tax spikes from people when they can see up front that the cost has risen.
In their defence, IMHO they have a legitimate reason to do this- their locally-printed/local-only prices would appear more expensive against nationally-advertised prices that (as mentioned above) don't include sales tax because it varies across the US.
Yes, maybe people should notice that the national price excludes sales tax and the local one doesn't, but in practice enough people won't that it puts the latter at a competitive disadvantage.
(FWIW I live in the UK where consumer-oriented prices *are* usually quoted with VAT (i.e. sales tax) included and prefer it that way- but that's because we have uniform VAT across the country. I understand why the US doesn't include it.)
Considering that we're finally seeing liquid fueled molten salt reactors built (in China) based on cutting edge state-of-the-1960s technology can we stop calling pressurized water and boiling water reactors "modern"?
The Nuke Haters will always hate.
There will always be something that damages some part of the environment.
There will always be some scenario that could possibly result in the end of us all.
What does this have to do with comment you were replying to? Or (more likely) were you simply "replying" to the first comment in order to give your otherwise unrelated $0.02's worth an unfair positional advantage?
I think I need to develop the Terrorist Detector 3000. It will just be a plain metallic arch (but a *cool* looking metallic arch). [..] What's more, the Terrorist Detector 3000 will only cost airports $50,000 each, saving them tons of money.
They were lifted a decade ago as the web took off. True Korea and China still use activeX in any banking or ecom site but that is because users still use IE 6 so why bother changing to SSL? The same users still use IE because EBAY and their bank still require activeX because users still use it in a viscious cycle etc.
WTF? eBay requires ActiveX? Since when? I don't recall PayPal ever requiring installation of an ActiveX control, much less eBay. I really think you're spreading misinformation...
The Netscape SEED plugin was abandoned early on, leaving only the IE ActiveX SEED control supported. Hence everyone had to use IE. Since (for good security reasons), ActiveX use is more fiddly with later versions of IE, everyone there stuck with IE6.
Apparently this *has* started to change, and IE6's share has fallen drastically in the past 2 or 3 years, though IIRC it was still in the twentysomething percent range the last time I checked.
(Not sure what China has to do with it- SEED is pretty much only used in South Korea. Maybe the OP was getting confused)
Plus, most companies are quite happy to deliver electronically, since it saves them money.
I've heard of people in the UK who opted to go paperless, then later required their credit card or bank statements (or whatever it was) in printed form to get a loan or something- and the bank charged them up the wazoo to get the necessary statements in traditional printed format.
In short, I wouldn't go paperless unless I was sure that everyone else that I was likely to be dealing with in the forseeable future would be happy with the paperless and/or scanned paper versions instead of traditional paper statements.
Wonder if Apple noticed Golden Delicious is a variety of apple.
Yeah, but unfortunately it's also one of the most bland and tasteless, at least as far as the modern examples on the UK market are concerned. Not a good association for me.
That said, if they want to name their product after an Apple, fair enough. Would I be right in assuming that Apple couldn't do anything about this sort of thing unless it was likely to cause confusion with an existing Apple product anyway?
LOL is short for laugh out loud. L[arbitrary number of O's]L's are visual representations of "long" laugh out louds.
Why, thank you Captain Helpful, but I'm sure that the OP (along with everyone else reading) had that figured out already and was simply indulging in some playfully pedantic tongue-in-cheek analysis.:-)
192kbps suck for everything snare heavy... so let me express doubt about, oh sorry you said better not good....
Yes, as I said I'm not claiming that 128kbps will ever be "hi-fi", and I'm sure that certain material will still show up its weaknesses. However, what I *was* saying is that for typical 80s/90s pop/rock music, the well-encoded 128kbps MP3s still sound in a different league to the stereotypically crappy ones with no in-your-face "splashiness" or other usual-suspect artifacts.
Just a side note- while the "128kbps MP3" is the canonical example of artifact-ridden, convenience-over-quality digital audio, in truth this can be misleading,
AFAIK this repuation dates back just over a decade to the Napster and early-P2P era, when 128kbps was the standard and there were many such stereotypically low-quality MP3s around.
Yet I have some I ripped and encoded myself around the same time at the same (fixed) bitrate, and they're significantly better. Why? I used a high-quality encoder (LAME-derived) whereas many of the other early MP3 encoders used in popular products of the time were apparently quite primitive and low-quality.
In short, while it might never be hi-fi, it shouldn't be assumed that 128kbps implies the stereotypical quality of most of those early MP3s. That has as much to do with crappy encoders as anything. Most modern encoders will be *much* better.
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Why do you assume the series stops at 1:4:9 ?
Does this mean it's 16:9 widescreen in the third and fourth dimensions?
Does the Monolith support 1080p? At any rate, I hear that they're extremely black and non-reflective, so contrast and saturation should be absolutely excellent on them. Plus I hear that these are *very* smart TVs.
They'll still be out-of-date in a couple of years time, though.
I will assume that it is no moon, but is, in fact, a battle station.
But is it fully armed and operational? That IS the question.
No, it's not.
"Will It Blend?"... *That* is the question!
You aren't supposed to eat meat, because human beings can't chase animals and catch them with our bare hands, (there's a big clue right there), and we can't kill them with our bare hands - our jaws don't open far enough to kill even a small pig, let alone a sheep, a cow, etc. Show me video footage of a human chasing down a healthy sheep, and killing it and eating it with his bare hands and teeth.
This assumes that the "natural" order of things is what a human can do with their bare hands and no tools. But many would argue that it's our ability to move beyond our physical limitations that makes us human, and indeed that we could no longer rely on surviving on that alone. Some have argued that human evolution may even have been driven by cooking.
One can argue about that particular assertion, but I'd question in general any argument that's reliant on what a human can do with absolutely no technology, as it's really not what humans are about.
10-20 years isn't exactly "coming soon"
No, only *this* is /exactly/ "Coming Soon".
If they could come up with a food substitute that was purely for sensation / making you feel full, and we all just took pills to actually get nutritional content.. I'd be all for it.
I dunno, they did something similar to that with chewing gum in the early 1970s that was supposed to approximate a three course meal. If I remember correctly, it ended up badly with the blueberry pie dessert course.
I think they made a hard-hitting movie dramatisation of it...
Trust me, 1kB.
To clarify this, you're right that the original versions of the ZX80 and ZX81 both had 1KB onboard.
However, the US version of the ZX81 (the Timex Sinclair 1000) shipped with 2KB onboard, which is probably what the GP was thinking of.
Can they program something fun and useful in 4K using the programming languages available a 2600?
Bear in mind that the 4KB was maximum size of a standard (non bank-switched) *ROM* cartridge.
Of course, one would need some RAM for keeping track of variables, data, etc. as well, and the 2600 had some onboard- a grand total of 128 *bytes*!
Plus, there was no screen memory as such, just the graphics chip registers which held enough data to generate one line, and had to be updated every time you wanted a subsequent line to be different.
Correct me if any of the following is wrong (I am *not* an expert in the field).
However, one problem with saying (in general) that "any method for finding the optimal solution to such and such is provably NP complete" is that it *only* covers finding the optimal solution in every case. AFAIK in some cases, algorithms may exist (or be proven to exist) that will provably generate a result that (while not optimal) will be within a small percentage of the optimal result, and that may be almost good enough in practice.
Whether that's the case here, I don't know, as I'm unclear what you meant by "using state of the art techniques it is possible to optimize blocks of up to 9 or 10 instructions, which is still much below the actual numbers needed". Did you mean techniques to always generate *the* optimal scheduling, or did you mean "optimize" in a more general sense?
The fact that Knuth saw fit to make that comment, suggests that it's the latter, unfortunately- and the fact that if there was an algorithm that got within 99.9999% of optimal without being NP-complete, I'm sure they would have used it already and it wouldn't be an issue.
If [..] you had the time/budget to write Itanium-specific assembler, you'd love Itanium (64 64-bit registers is nice)
I thought one of the major problems with Itanium was that it used EPIC architecture which relies heavily on the compiler explicitly figuring out how the parallel instructions should be scheduled (rather than the CPU itself doing this at runtime)... except that apparently such a compiler was never really written.
(Interesting quote I just came across in the Itanium WP article from Donald Knuth- "The Itanium approach...was supposed to be so terrific- until it turned out that the wished-for compilers were basically impossible to write".)
Or on a Casio Boat like in Missouri
Casio are running gambling boats?! Makes a change from their usual electronic devices, I guess...
The ad says $9.99 plus sales tax which they often say anyway and tags used within the store are printed locally. It is doable but no store would consider it unless it's forced on them which I suspect the government does no want. It's easier to hide sale tax spikes from people when they can see up front that the cost has risen.
In their defence, IMHO they have a legitimate reason to do this- their locally-printed/local-only prices would appear more expensive against nationally-advertised prices that (as mentioned above) don't include sales tax because it varies across the US.
Yes, maybe people should notice that the national price excludes sales tax and the local one doesn't, but in practice enough people won't that it puts the latter at a competitive disadvantage.
(FWIW I live in the UK where consumer-oriented prices *are* usually quoted with VAT (i.e. sales tax) included and prefer it that way- but that's because we have uniform VAT across the country. I understand why the US doesn't include it.)
False dichotomy (possibly based on a flawed assumption that you assumed he was attacking the idea of government in general?)
It's not necessarily a choice between a crappy, abusive government that abuses peoples' property and no government at all.
Considering that we're finally seeing liquid fueled molten salt reactors built (in China) based on cutting edge state-of-the-1960s technology can we stop calling pressurized water and boiling water reactors "modern"?
The Nuke Haters will always hate. There will always be something that damages some part of the environment. There will always be some scenario that could possibly result in the end of us all.
What does this have to do with comment you were replying to? Or (more likely) were you simply "replying" to the first comment in order to give your otherwise unrelated $0.02's worth an unfair positional advantage?
My mom can't operate a modern TV. [..] The revolution will be the people who make some kind of master overlay and master remote
The television will not be revolutionised, brother.
I think I need to develop the Terrorist Detector 3000. It will just be a plain metallic arch (but a *cool* looking metallic arch). [..] What's more, the Terrorist Detector 3000 will only cost airports $50,000 each, saving them tons of money.
This is oddly reminiscent of something that *actually happened* with the Iraqi government.
Is it just me, or does "Motorola Mobility" make it sound more like a company that makes disabled scooters and wheelchairs?
They were lifted a decade ago as the web took off. True Korea and China still use activeX in any banking or ecom site but that is because users still use IE 6 so why bother changing to SSL? The same users still use IE because EBAY and their bank still require activeX because users still use it in a viscious cycle etc.
WTF? eBay requires ActiveX? Since when? I don't recall PayPal ever requiring installation of an ActiveX control, much less eBay. I really think you're spreading misinformation...
I suspect that he/she meant in South Korea. Until recently, IE6 had a ludicrously high (98.6%) market share there. This is because around a decade back they got tired of waiting for the improved version of SSL and designed their own encryption called SEED instead, which virtually all online commerce in the country used.
The Netscape SEED plugin was abandoned early on, leaving only the IE ActiveX SEED control supported. Hence everyone had to use IE. Since (for good security reasons), ActiveX use is more fiddly with later versions of IE, everyone there stuck with IE6.
Apparently this *has* started to change, and IE6's share has fallen drastically in the past 2 or 3 years, though IIRC it was still in the twentysomething percent range the last time I checked.
(Not sure what China has to do with it- SEED is pretty much only used in South Korea. Maybe the OP was getting confused)
Plus, most companies are quite happy to deliver electronically, since it saves them money.
I've heard of people in the UK who opted to go paperless, then later required their credit card or bank statements (or whatever it was) in printed form to get a loan or something- and the bank charged them up the wazoo to get the necessary statements in traditional printed format.
In short, I wouldn't go paperless unless I was sure that everyone else that I was likely to be dealing with in the forseeable future would be happy with the paperless and/or scanned paper versions instead of traditional paper statements.
Wonder if Apple noticed Golden Delicious is a variety of apple.
Yeah, but unfortunately it's also one of the most bland and tasteless, at least as far as the modern examples on the UK market are concerned. Not a good association for me.
That said, if they want to name their product after an Apple, fair enough. Would I be right in assuming that Apple couldn't do anything about this sort of thing unless it was likely to cause confusion with an existing Apple product anyway?
LOL is short for laugh out loud. L[arbitrary number of O's]L's are visual representations of "long" laugh out louds.
Why, thank you Captain Helpful, but I'm sure that the OP (along with everyone else reading) had that figured out already and was simply indulging in some playfully pedantic tongue-in-cheek analysis. :-)
192kbps suck for everything snare heavy... so let me express doubt about, oh sorry you said better not good....
Yes, as I said I'm not claiming that 128kbps will ever be "hi-fi", and I'm sure that certain material will still show up its weaknesses. However, what I *was* saying is that for typical 80s/90s pop/rock music, the well-encoded 128kbps MP3s still sound in a different league to the stereotypically crappy ones with no in-your-face "splashiness" or other usual-suspect artifacts.
Basically, you should take everything and everyone online with a grain of salt (including me!).
I bet the Salt Manufacturer's Association paid you to say that...
Just a side note- while the "128kbps MP3" is the canonical example of artifact-ridden, convenience-over-quality digital audio, in truth this can be misleading,
AFAIK this repuation dates back just over a decade to the Napster and early-P2P era, when 128kbps was the standard and there were many such stereotypically low-quality MP3s around.
Yet I have some I ripped and encoded myself around the same time at the same (fixed) bitrate, and they're significantly better. Why? I used a high-quality encoder (LAME-derived) whereas many of the other early MP3 encoders used in popular products of the time were apparently quite primitive and low-quality.
In short, while it might never be hi-fi, it shouldn't be assumed that 128kbps implies the stereotypical quality of most of those early MP3s. That has as much to do with crappy encoders as anything. Most modern encoders will be *much* better.
Is this any different than offering undergrads $20 to participate in a psychology experiment?
Venkman's lousy 5 bucks isn't cutting it any more then?
At least he didn't try and take it though airport security.
Even Luke Skywalker can't pull of that type of thing- he had his "penis compensator sized" light saber taken off him by the bouncer once, when he tried to get into a nightclub with it.