You can add a photon mapping pass to a ray tracer to simulate light bouncing indirectly on to other objects. I believe this is part of what is called Monte Carlo ray tracing, which adds a whole swathe of extra goodies to traditional raytracing.
Not that I condone using Excel for data handling but consider this. When most PC's come with Standard MSOffice (which includes Excel but not Access, which comes in Professional), what application are users gonna be doing all database type scenarios?
Microsoft have basically forced Excel to be the packhorse of data manipulation for the masses.
Although that list is very amusing, (and uncannily accurate) many of the console RPG Cliches don't carry through to the traditional PC RPGs like Bards Tale and the Goldbox D&D games.
So don't keep your hopes up about them poking at most of these cliches.
I have an NEC LCD monitor that claims to have 16 ms response times. I've played all sorts of games on it and would have to say that the clarity of the picture is at the very least on par with CRT. This cannot be because of I've got used to the blurriness as I can see no difference in the level of blur with my 19" CRT.
Also, I've never heard monitor response times been measure in FPS. FPS is usually related to the jerkiness of games, not the blur. Also, the cut off for the human eye to see a difference in frames is about 30 FPS, which is why TV's use this.
I would think that rather than this new form factor reducing the (if any) overheating problems of intels current chips, they would be able to ramp up the clock speed of future chips because they can be sure of a cooler environment for these chips to run in.
Except that most of these silver pastes in the article are performance orientated, with a heftier price tag (A tube of Artic Silver set me back about AUD$11)
How would they justify putting a performance price on these pastes if it were just colour? (Though it works for VTEC stickers on cars im told).
HP is trying to go out of business by expanding its marketshare?
Must mean Microsoft, Dell and Apple are trying to go out of business too
HP can obviously see the cash cow that online music distribution is. A dollar a song for legal music where people were previously paying nothing for illegal music sounds like a good business to get into. Especially with the infrastructure that HP probably already owns.
I think that it more shows that the system of checking the CVS Entries is actually working well.
If an automatic script can pick up something like this, and assuming there are also manual checks of the CVS entries, then it shows a high level of security for the source.
I'd be more worried if there was an article on/. that said "No exploits detected by CVS checking script"
Now on sale, Super Hack Bros 4.
Help Mario hack your school network as he searches (again) for his missing Princess Peach, rm -rf'ed by the evil Sysadmin B0ws3r. Challenge yourself with 40 levels of security!
Available: June 2004
Requires GBA Wireless Link Cable
We recently deployed Jabber as our company IM protocol (yay, more waste of time). Unfortunately, our computers are somewhat backwards and the de facto standard has been Windows 95 (Yeah I know, I know) with a sprinkling of XP.
The client that runs on the XP Machine is very, very nice. This client unfortunately doesn't run on 95. So we have a very substandard substitute for most of our workers. (BTW, If anyone knows of a good looking Jabber Client that runs on 95, I would be very grateful).
Anyways, apart from client issues. The best bit about Jabber is that you can set up your own server, independent of ones run by the producers of the product (ala Yahoo or ICQ). So it is very good in a business setting where you want everyone to keep in touch without clogging email or wasting phone time.
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It does take guts to move away from the "protection" of keenspot in order to make a decent amount of money from their comics.
Good call
Snopes should be the first port of call for anything like this
You can add a photon mapping pass to a ray tracer to simulate light bouncing indirectly on to other objects. I believe this is part of what is called Monte Carlo ray tracing, which adds a whole swathe of extra goodies to traditional raytracing.
Microsoft have basically forced Excel to be the packhorse of data manipulation for the masses.
So don't keep your hopes up about them poking at most of these cliches.
I have an NEC LCD monitor that claims to have 16 ms response times. I've played all sorts of games on it and would have to say that the clarity of the picture is at the very least on par with CRT. This cannot be because of I've got used to the blurriness as I can see no difference in the level of blur with my 19" CRT.
Also, I've never heard monitor response times been measure in FPS. FPS is usually related to the jerkiness of games, not the blur. Also, the cut off for the human eye to see a difference in frames is about 30 FPS, which is why TV's use this.
(E.G. New Pentium 3Gazillion Mhz*)
* Only suitable for BTX mainboards.
Apple doesn't actually make the G5s, it only uses them in the PowerMacs. IBM are the guys that actually make the G5 (PowerPCs).
Cha-ching!
Woops, I mean did you search the Internet using a popular engine for that?
Except that most of these silver pastes in the article are performance orientated, with a heftier price tag (A tube of Artic Silver set me back about AUD$11)
How would they justify putting a performance price on these pastes if it were just colour? (Though it works for VTEC stickers on cars im told).
Check out some of the heatsink companies websites, thermaltake etc, to get some graphs and such about the heating properties of their products.
Toms does regular heatsink comparisons, and the copper always beats out the alu of the same type.
Seems to me one persons freedom can be another persons prison.
Must mean Microsoft, Dell and Apple are trying to go out of business too
HP can obviously see the cash cow that online music distribution is. A dollar a song for legal music where people were previously paying nothing for illegal music sounds like a good business to get into. Especially with the infrastructure that HP probably already owns.
So now we can answer that other age old question of how efficient is the flight of a wooden cow?
If an automatic script can pick up something like this, and assuming there are also manual checks of the CVS entries, then it shows a high level of security for the source.
I'd be more worried if there was an article on /. that said "No exploits detected by CVS checking script"
I thought that the netstat command was similar to Unix because Microsoft used the BSD TCP/IP stack.
This could be a way to get more jobs for blind people!
Seriously, how hard could opening a letter and scanning it be for someone with no sight! BAM! instant privacy!
Though you might get a few blanks when they scan it wrong side up
Now on sale, Super Hack Bros 4. Help Mario hack your school network as he searches (again) for his missing Princess Peach, rm -rf'ed by the evil Sysadmin B0ws3r. Challenge yourself with 40 levels of security! Available: June 2004 Requires GBA Wireless Link Cable
That explains all them cats
We recently deployed Jabber as our company IM protocol (yay, more waste of time). Unfortunately, our computers are somewhat backwards and the de facto standard has been Windows 95 (Yeah I know, I know) with a sprinkling of XP. The client that runs on the XP Machine is very, very nice. This client unfortunately doesn't run on 95. So we have a very substandard substitute for most of our workers. (BTW, If anyone knows of a good looking Jabber Client that runs on 95, I would be very grateful). Anyways, apart from client issues. The best bit about Jabber is that you can set up your own server, independent of ones run by the producers of the product (ala Yahoo or ICQ). So it is very good in a business setting where you want everyone to keep in touch without clogging email or wasting phone time.