That is a very idealistic view of terms like Law and Justice. And, while I agree with your statements, I don't think that kind of rhetoric is helpful. Maybe traffic laws don't reduce injustice but they do serve an important purpose. They also need to be enforced, otherwise they are meaningless. Maybe law is the wrong term for what is really a rule in what could be defined as traffic protocol. You agree to following this protocol in exchange for the privilege of using a vehicle on public roads. A new institution could be setup for enforcing traffic protocol, which is completely separate from the police or any notion of justice. Would that really be any better?
The 'chatting' in Metroid is voip. The restriction is that you can only chat with 'friends' where 'friends' are people who have given you their 12 digit number. You have to enter the number by hand. I've used it though. The sound quality isn't great but it works.
I would like to see some data backing this up. I've read that there are no known fully vegan cultures on earth. That includes the very poor. Veganism is an ideal. Just because someone is too poor to buy meat doesn't mean that they don't eat meat whenever they get a chance. In Indian culture it is the lowests (least wealthy) cast that eats meat and the highest (most weathy) cast that that does not (although they do eat a considerable amount of dairy products). I'm not saying you are wrong. I'm just asking for data to back up your statement.
I would just split the colony into many smaller isolated colonies. If one becomes corrupted just throw it out and start over from another, non-corrupted, source.
A couple of brief passages will convey the gist of Osmanagic's beliefs:
Ordinary watchmakers repair our watches and put them into accordance with Earthly time. It is my theory that the Maya should be considered watchmakers of the cosmos whose mission it is to adjust the Earthly frequency and bring it into accordance with the vibrations of our Sun. Once the Earth begins to vibrate in harmony with the Sun, information will be able to travel in both directions without limitation. And then we will be able to understand why all ancient peoples worshipped the Sun and dedicated their rituals to this. The Sun is the source of all life on this planet and the source of all information and knowledge....And with a frequency in harmony, the Earth will, via the Sun, be connected with the center of our Galaxy. These facts become exceptionally important when we realize that we are rapidly approaching December 2012, a date which the Maya have marked as the time of arrival of the Galactic Energy Cluster which will enlighten us.
I'm not going to watch it, unless Han shoots a new bounty hunter (first) at the opening of every single episode.
Only that will atone for Lucas's past sins.
Only if by "New" you mean an infant he suspects might one day become a bounty hunter in addition to it being a different infant every week. In fact, I won't watch unless that is the plot for the entire series. They can call it "Star Wars: Han Solo Baby Bounty Hunter Hunter Chronicles".
I will admit that I'm ignorant on the subject. The 100 meters isn't very far by comparison to how far you would have to go to get into lunar orbit (assuming you would use the lander to get into lunar orbit from the moon's surface).
It says "It will cost less than a good mobile phone". I really cant see that happening. The displays will cost alot, but the microcontrollers to make this thing be "OS-independent" would put it over $200-$300 alone I think.
$200 - $300 for a microcontroller? Maybe I'm confused about what you are trying to say but last time I checked, good-enough "microcontrollers" were only about $4 each in bulk. I'm guessing the keyboard is USB, and will just work like a normal USB keyboard if it is connected to a system that doesn't have drivers, thus is the nature of USB. I doubt this keyboard has more than one processor anyway, assuming its not an ASIC or FPGA. The displays will be spendy, processing power is relatively cheap though.
Centrino is the name of the 'platform' which includes the chipset, wireless solution, processor and every other component. AMD is relying on third parties to provide the chipsets, motherboards and graphics. Intels methodology around the entire platform is probably the most significant factor in the power savings. That isn't to say that 65nm doesn't help, but I would be suprised if AMD could beat Intel (in terms of power consumption on a mobile platform) simply by switching to 65nm technology. Its pretty moot anyway, by the time AMD is using 65nm Intel will probably be on to 45nm.
A single core, overclocked so that it could provide the same performance as the dual core would use more power than the two cores. I'm sure you could come up with a single core solution that would require less power, but it would likely be a step back in performance, or only a marginal step forward. Make no mistake, the multiple core movement was started to address the power usage as performance requirements increase, not the other way around.
Even if the inquirer did manage to accurately report the status of Whitefield, Intel re-uses code names on purpose for the sake of ambiguity. So Whitefield a couple of months ago may not be the same chip as Whitefield today. Why throw away perfectly good code names?
So, 7.4 bits in 1HZ of bandWIDTH, that doesn't mean that its a single sine wave, that means that a signal contained in the spectrum between XHz and X+1Hz can transfer 7.4bits/second. Make sense? Just as a side note, a single sine wave contains no information (chew on that for a while).
Works well != Works perfectly. Although I don't have game development experience personally, I have heard from the mouth of a representative for the team that is developing the new UT engine that they use SLI for this very purpose. Next generation features can be done with a software wrapper, but the extra graphics processing speed does help. If there is a better alternative I would like to hear it, and by better I mean cheaper/faster/quicker to implement.
SLI works well for game developers who are writing for next generation hardware.
While I agree that there is a lot of gimmicky marketing involved, I think it is a good attempt to raise the bar on what it means to be 'High End' as a response to market demand. Maybe some people do what you suggest, but I know a handfull of people who bought two cards right off the bat. As long as people are willing to spend the money, you can't blame nVidia or ATI for giving them more opportunities to do just that.
Also, I don't know what you are suggesting by saying that it convinces people to buy a more expensive video card. All of nVidia's PCIe cards in the 6000 and 7000 generation support SLI (even the non-GT ones that don't have a bridge) since the 77 drivers came out (at the 7800 launch). That includes the cheap ones (if you can call any of those cards cheap).
I know I said it last time, but this isn't even a good game, it teaches some c-esque syntax, but doesn't really impart any programming skills (such as problem solving. In fact, the mechanics of the game are no more complicated than 'chutes and ladders', the player never has to make a decision (as far as I could tell by reading the rules anyway).
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I didn't know you could get good beer in a can.
That is a very idealistic view of terms like Law and Justice. And, while I agree with your statements, I don't think that kind of rhetoric is helpful. Maybe traffic laws don't reduce injustice but they do serve an important purpose. They also need to be enforced, otherwise they are meaningless. Maybe law is the wrong term for what is really a rule in what could be defined as traffic protocol. You agree to following this protocol in exchange for the privilege of using a vehicle on public roads. A new institution could be setup for enforcing traffic protocol, which is completely separate from the police or any notion of justice. Would that really be any better?
Its a mix of X-Blender, X-Fry and the occasional X-Leela.
I don't think giving superhuman powers to a guy named Apocalypse111 is the best move.
Not everyone lives in New York City.
Ahh, Ok. What you said is true, you can only chat before/after the game. I missed the 'in game' portion of your post.
The 'chatting' in Metroid is voip. The restriction is that you can only chat with 'friends' where 'friends' are people who have given you their 12 digit number. You have to enter the number by hand. I've used it though. The sound quality isn't great but it works.
I would like to see some data backing this up. I've read that there are no known fully vegan cultures on earth. That includes the very poor. Veganism is an ideal. Just because someone is too poor to buy meat doesn't mean that they don't eat meat whenever they get a chance. In Indian culture it is the lowests (least wealthy) cast that eats meat and the highest (most weathy) cast that that does not (although they do eat a considerable amount of dairy products). I'm not saying you are wrong. I'm just asking for data to back up your statement.
Uh-oh. Do I detect the beginnins of a new "Uh-oh. Do I detect the beginnings of a new $existing_meme /. meme" /. meme?
The sandwich was from a space truck stop vending machine not the 20th century. It was egg salad.
Why not do 'Sweet Zombie Christopher Reeve' (more offensive ALWAYS means more laughs)
I would just split the colony into many smaller isolated colonies. If one becomes corrupted just throw it out and start over from another, non-corrupted, source.
A couple of brief passages will convey the gist of Osmanagic's beliefs:
Ordinary watchmakers repair our watches and put them into accordance with Earthly time. It is my theory that the Maya should be considered watchmakers of the cosmos whose mission it is to adjust the Earthly frequency and bring it into accordance with the vibrations of our Sun. Once the Earth begins to vibrate in harmony with the Sun, information will be able to travel in both directions without limitation. And then we will be able to understand why all ancient peoples worshipped the Sun and dedicated their rituals to this. The Sun is the source of all life on this planet and the source of all information and knowledge. ...And with a frequency in harmony, the Earth will, via the Sun, be connected with the center of our Galaxy. These facts become exceptionally important when we realize that we are rapidly approaching December 2012, a date which the Maya have marked as the time of arrival of the Galactic Energy Cluster which will enlighten us.
Conroe/Merom/Woodcrest family will be (are) 64-bit a la AMD^H^H^HEM64T
Only if by "New" you mean an infant he suspects might one day become a bounty hunter in addition to it being a different infant every week. In fact, I won't watch unless that is the plot for the entire series. They can call it "Star Wars: Han Solo Baby Bounty Hunter Hunter Chronicles".
I will admit that I'm ignorant on the subject. The 100 meters isn't very far by comparison to how far you would have to go to get into lunar orbit (assuming you would use the lander to get into lunar orbit from the moon's surface).
$200 - $300 for a microcontroller? Maybe I'm confused about what you are trying to say but last time I checked, good-enough "microcontrollers" were only about $4 each in bulk. I'm guessing the keyboard is USB, and will just work like a normal USB keyboard if it is connected to a system that doesn't have drivers, thus is the nature of USB. I doubt this keyboard has more than one processor anyway, assuming its not an ASIC or FPGA. The displays will be spendy, processing power is relatively cheap though.
Centrino is the name of the 'platform' which includes the chipset, wireless solution, processor and every other component. AMD is relying on third parties to provide the chipsets, motherboards and graphics. Intels methodology around the entire platform is probably the most significant factor in the power savings. That isn't to say that 65nm doesn't help, but I would be suprised if AMD could beat Intel (in terms of power consumption on a mobile platform) simply by switching to 65nm technology. Its pretty moot anyway, by the time AMD is using 65nm Intel will probably be on to 45nm.
A single core, overclocked so that it could provide the same performance as the dual core would use more power than the two cores. I'm sure you could come up with a single core solution that would require less power, but it would likely be a step back in performance, or only a marginal step forward. Make no mistake, the multiple core movement was started to address the power usage as performance requirements increase, not the other way around.
Even if the inquirer did manage to accurately report the status of Whitefield, Intel re-uses code names on purpose for the sake of ambiguity. So Whitefield a couple of months ago may not be the same chip as Whitefield today. Why throw away perfectly good code names?
I think they are waiting for you somewhere in late 2006 or early 2007
So, 7.4 bits in 1HZ of bandWIDTH, that doesn't mean that its a single sine wave, that means that a signal contained in the spectrum between XHz and X+1Hz can transfer 7.4bits/second. Make sense? Just as a side note, a single sine wave contains no information (chew on that for a while).
Works well != Works perfectly. Although I don't have game development experience personally, I have heard from the mouth of a representative for the team that is developing the new UT engine that they use SLI for this very purpose. Next generation features can be done with a software wrapper, but the extra graphics processing speed does help. If there is a better alternative I would like to hear it, and by better I mean cheaper/faster/quicker to implement.
SLI works well for game developers who are writing for next generation hardware. While I agree that there is a lot of gimmicky marketing involved, I think it is a good attempt to raise the bar on what it means to be 'High End' as a response to market demand. Maybe some people do what you suggest, but I know a handfull of people who bought two cards right off the bat. As long as people are willing to spend the money, you can't blame nVidia or ATI for giving them more opportunities to do just that. Also, I don't know what you are suggesting by saying that it convinces people to buy a more expensive video card. All of nVidia's PCIe cards in the 6000 and 7000 generation support SLI (even the non-GT ones that don't have a bridge) since the 77 drivers came out (at the 7800 launch). That includes the cheap ones (if you can call any of those cards cheap).
I know I said it last time, but this isn't even a good game, it teaches some c-esque syntax, but doesn't really impart any programming skills (such as problem solving. In fact, the mechanics of the game are no more complicated than 'chutes and ladders', the player never has to make a decision (as far as I could tell by reading the rules anyway).