They make second rate hardware that is over priced and underperformed
Anyone that has used Sun hardware would not say this. Tell us about your experience with Sun.
I must respectfully disagree.
For uniprocessor boxes, the price/performance of a Sparc is not competitive at all.
There was a time, when the Alpha was slowly rotting, that Sparcs were heavily used in the physics community. But Lately, I see more people buying new Apples than Sparcs. (PS: I don't see very many Apples used for work (I see plenty for desktops though))
but exactly where does one come across a container of deuterium oxide for $20??? Discount Nuclear Supplies R' Us
Heavy water is not radioactive and is only mildly toxic upon ingestion.
It occurs naturally, but rarely, in nature. It can easily be seperated from regular water. You could put together the equipment to produce heavy water for well, well under a million dollars.
In the background I have a maximized window that I am coding in. The code is big and fills up the entire screen.
In the forground I have a small window viewing another source file so that I can see a particular function.
I am typing in the large background window - that I can mostly see, except for the small window that I am reading from.
I can't do this in Windows with out tweaks. In Windows I have to divide the screen, even if the smaller window doesn't need that much space. So the Windows way is wasteful and inhibitive for my needs.
You are typing away in an application and some stupid application has a popup. You immediately lose focus.
Whereas in X (depending on how you have your settings configured) unless the popup came directly under your mouse you can ignore it for a second to finish typing a sentence or two and then take care of it.
Damn, guess I should know better than to try being a smartass on/.
I've had people debate me on core subjects here, so much worse has happened.
What I meant (but didn't say) was a cheap and efficient way. Wouldn't a helium gas turbine be a very expensive on that scale? Or am I talking out of my ass here?
I imagine it would be a bit more expensive than the current method. But helium is cheap to make with some water and electricity. It's just keeping it in a big pressurized container. Though I am a scientist not an engineer, so I can't speak in realistic proportions.
Nuclear power plants get built so sporadically now, I hope someone tries to implement this (or something else interesting) somewhere around the world. I think everyone is just really scared to mess up.
Working together might be an intelligent thing to do (except for the problem of everyone speaking different languages -- I sure as hell would not ever want to run any tri-national coding project).
Umm, you know that they can read each others writing? The chinese characters represent individual words that translate the same to and from japanese.
Only written Chinese is a single language. There is no such thing as spoken Chinese - their so called 'dialects' are actually completely different spoken languages.
For one, it disobeyed the first law of thermodynamics. This is the most firmly established principle in all of physics and says that one cannot create mass out of nothing.
But lo and behold, the Hulk did not violate the first law of thermodynamics, he violated the second law of thermodynamics.
Near end of the movie when Bruce is fighting with his father and the water started to freeze around them, that explained that the extra mass came from temperature.
However this seems to make the Hulk violate the second law, because he seems to be converting heat from a lower temperature reservoir directly into energy (mass).
But more importantly the author seems to miss the biggest whack at science in the entire movie.
When they are performing experiments on the frog, they cut it with a scapel and then the nanites heal it, but immediately aftwerwards the nanites destroy the frog.
The scientists declare this a terrible failure! And I am thinking WHAT! If I could do this, I would be FAMOUS FOREVER. I would be biology books, I would get prizes, I would give speaches all over the world. And I would get a posh faculty position whereever I want. It doesn't matter if the frog died, it was amazing. They could have all stopped their research right there and be set for life.
this is quite wrong, just because these features are useless to you, doesnt mean it is to everyone...
You seem to be misinterpreting what he meant, as you left out the word software.
Lots of stuff on newer Creative sound cards is done in software and has little to do with the actual sound card. Take for instance my SB PCI something. It claims to have have wave table synthesis, but that in fact is a lie. It effectively has a second dsp and a big chunk of memory. In windows it runs a process that loads samples to the extra sound card memory on the fly to play midi files on the second dsp. So basically it has ghetto windows only wave table synthesis. And there is no point in wasting time on writing a program that would use the second dsp and the memory to play midi music when TiMidity already exists. So what does the Alsa driver do? It enables the second dsp to act like a second sound card.
Basically it is a waste of effort to give software effects to specific sound cards, when you can do the same thing for all sound cards. Now I have no idea if there is a way to do EAX with Alsa, OSS, or esound; but from my example you can see that there are specific examples of software existing.
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We rely upon half-baked right wing Dr. Strangeloves to choose the foreign countries that will welcome our invasions...
Dr. Strangelove was a wheel chair bound, former Nazi, weapons designer/scientist -- not a politician.
If you are refering to some kind of Herman Kahn, we can win nuclear war by using game theory, mentality - then I am really lost.
If we had Kahn's in power then we would be stockpiling nuclear weapons as fast as possible to win a cold war against N.Korea.
Einstein never got a nobel for Relativity. So why on earth would he mention it?
cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log | grep -i buffer
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD0000000
They make second rate hardware that is over priced and underperformed
Anyone that has used Sun hardware would not say this. Tell us about your experience with Sun.
I must respectfully disagree.
For uniprocessor boxes, the price/performance of a Sparc is not competitive at all.
There was a time, when the Alpha was slowly rotting, that Sparcs were heavily used in the physics community. But Lately, I see more people buying new Apples than Sparcs. (PS: I don't see very many Apples used for work (I see plenty for desktops though))
Karma: +e^(pi*i), Euler
call it what you want, but I call -1 karma bad
Actually, if the a half life is how long it takes to reach half the initial state, then given exponential decay twice that would be ...
Quarter-Life
Forgive my ignorance
You are forgiven
but exactly where does one come across a container of deuterium oxide for $20??? Discount Nuclear Supplies R' Us
Heavy water is not radioactive and is only mildly toxic upon ingestion.
It occurs naturally, but rarely, in nature. It can easily be seperated from regular water. You could put together the equipment to produce heavy water for well, well under a million dollars.
Air is an impurity, it contains lots of junk molecules like water that will interfere with your experiment
any accelerator or (experimental) plasma device that you can think of works under vacuum
The Darwin Awards honor those who improve our gene pool... by removing themselves from it. http://www.darwinawards.com/
SCO winning
switching to HURD
equally likely
The biggest problem with a 3D desktop is that our input devices are still stuck in 2D.
My input device has 3 degrees of freedom
2 from the track ball and 1 from the scroll wheel
You have to go faster to dilate time!
In the forground I have a small window viewing another source file so that I can see a particular function.
I am typing in the large background window - that I can mostly see, except for the small window that I am reading from.
I can't do this in Windows with out tweaks. In Windows I have to divide the screen, even if the smaller window doesn't need that much space. So the Windows way is wasteful and inhibitive for my needs.
Whereas in X (depending on how you have your settings configured) unless the popup came directly under your mouse you can ignore it for a second to finish typing a sentence or two and then take care of it.
Damn, guess I should know better than to try being a smartass on /.
I've had people debate me on core subjects here, so much worse has happened.
What I meant (but didn't say) was a cheap and efficient way. Wouldn't a helium gas turbine be a very expensive on that scale?
Or am I talking out of my ass here?
I imagine it would be a bit more expensive than the current method. But helium is cheap to make with some water and electricity. It's just keeping it in a big pressurized container. Though I am a scientist not an engineer, so I can't speak in realistic proportions.
Nuclear power plants get built so sporadically now, I hope someone tries to implement this (or something else interesting) somewhere around the world. I think everyone is just really scared to mess up.
If you know a better (read: more efficient) way to convert heat to electricity on a massive scale, I'd love to hear it.
a heluim gas turbine
Umm.. yes, that is exactly what you want it to do. The cold in 'cold fusion' means colder than the sun.
You don't think it's a bit crufty to use the greatest science known to mankind to power a steam engine?
It's like putting a corvette engine on a pogo stick!
we will use it to boil water
(you have to know how a nukular power plant works to get this joke)
Other than the kokuji, with practice, a Chinese person can read Japanese when they use the Han characters
That or my Chinese friends are lying to me
Working together might be an intelligent thing to do (except for the problem of everyone speaking different languages -- I sure as hell would not ever want to run any tri-national coding project).
Umm, you know that they can read each others writing? The chinese characters represent individual words that translate the same to and from japanese.
Only written Chinese is a single language. There is no such thing as spoken Chinese - their so called 'dialects' are actually completely different spoken languages.
TASKMGR running with EMM386 on a 386 or better is 32 bit multitasking
DR DOS was the shit, and MS DOS was shit
But I bet, oh what's the divorce rate now?
You know the US divorce rate is mostly inflated by people who marry multiple times.
There have been a lot more obvious blunders committed in the public eye. Consider Hubble's focusing problems,
For anyone that works with large telescope lenses, the lens problem was completely and absolutely understandable. It was fixable and it was fixed.
The media really blew things out of proportion.
Now for the units thing, that was absolutely retarted and not forgivable at all.
For one, it disobeyed the first law of thermodynamics. This is the most firmly established principle in all of physics and says that one cannot create mass out of nothing.
But lo and behold, the Hulk did not violate the first law of thermodynamics, he violated the second law of thermodynamics.
Near end of the movie when Bruce is fighting with his father and the water started to freeze around them, that explained that the extra mass came from temperature.
However this seems to make the Hulk violate the second law, because he seems to be converting heat from a lower temperature reservoir directly into energy (mass).
But more importantly the author seems to miss the biggest whack at science in the entire movie.
When they are performing experiments on the frog, they cut it with a scapel and then the nanites heal it, but immediately aftwerwards the nanites destroy the frog.
The scientists declare this a terrible failure! And I am thinking WHAT! If I could do this, I would be FAMOUS FOREVER. I would be biology books, I would get prizes, I would give speaches all over the world. And I would get a posh faculty position whereever I want. It doesn't matter if the frog died, it was amazing. They could have all stopped their research right there and be set for life.
this is quite wrong, just because these features are useless to you, doesnt mean it is to everyone...
You seem to be misinterpreting what he meant, as you left out the word software.
Lots of stuff on newer Creative sound cards is done in software and has little to do with the actual sound card. Take for instance my SB PCI something. It claims to have have wave table synthesis, but that in fact is a lie. It effectively has a second dsp and a big chunk of memory. In windows it runs a process that loads samples to the extra sound card memory on the fly to play midi files on the second dsp. So basically it has ghetto windows only wave table synthesis. And there is no point in wasting time on writing a program that would use the second dsp and the memory to play midi music when TiMidity already exists. So what does the Alsa driver do? It enables the second dsp to act like a second sound card.
Basically it is a waste of effort to give software effects to specific sound cards, when you can do the same thing for all sound cards. Now I have no idea if there is a way to do EAX with Alsa, OSS, or esound; but from my example you can see that there are specific examples of software existing.
Yah
I think Earl Grey tea tastes like soap
maybe my taste buds are messed up or something