That might have been true 5 years ago, but nothing ever followed up. No "serious inroads" ever manifested.
In fact, FW IS on the decline. The ratio of Laptops and Camcorders being fitted out with them has been dropping for at least two years now. They days when you could expect one are more or less over even with video.
Thats the same reason why 24bit audio cards for playback (and even for recording if you dont plan any excessive post-processing) is overkill. All those SACD players cannot beat the roles of physics, which mean that everything after bit 19 or so is just thermal noice. No matter how expensive the audiophile voodoo happens to be.
I have also hear radio broadcasts were people were swearing that they saw a propeller plane hit the WTC. Theres nothing less reliable than an eyewitness in a shocking situation.
You are a fucking idiot. Energy=Money. Running Seti on my computer 25/7 would cost about 200Eur a year. Donating that to a good cause would be a 100 times better use of the resource.
I am sorry, but what do you want to show us with that shots? How good or how bad the game looks? The first one has a butt-ugly creature in front of Gray Plastic Tunnels (tM). The second one had the worlds edgeiest curve and gray in gray. Looks like quake 1 in high-res...
Which will be a) 3 months after Duke Nukem 4ever, or alternatively accompanied by the HUGE disappointment about another overhyped game failing. Just really look at the meat thats been shown about spore, and ignore the talk (which is all bullshit): A series of nearly unreleated minigames, where your great design of the species doesnt play any kind of role besides being cosmetic.
Maybe you should stup sniffing shit, because reading even half your post did only archive two things: a) a slight headache b) the feeling that there is somebody out there who's totally fucked up (and not me)
A single pixel can provide a hell of a lot of information: Do spectroscopy, and you can get the typical absorption lines (O2 for example should be easy to detect, and be a sure way for _anybody_ who detects it to tell something is odd about that planet). Track the intensity over time, and you can get the rotation period.
You underestimate the size of galaxies... They have VAST amounts of of nothing in them. Somebody actually calculated to expected value of collisions between stars in the andromeda event: Its only a single digit number...
(excuse me if your reference to supernovas in meant to descripe the increase in star formation due to the external influence)
One problem with that: The speed of the stars will me _much_ less than c. That means to get into "empty space", it should have at least a couple billion years of time to coast.
Stars heavy enough to go supernova dont live that long. They can be happy to get a few 100 millions of ago before they detonate.
25 servers that will have to be taken offline for patches, hardware upgrades, error analysis, disk failures, subnet changes...
>25 servers that will require a dozen admin staff and ongoing >per-instance support contracts with hardware and software >vendors.
This is called "no single point of failure". 25 servers with one down= 24 still working...
>25 servers pulling a magnitude more power, requiring heavy- >duty cooling and a bank of UPS.
Are you retarted? Sorry, excuse this rhetoric question.. The disc unit alone pulls more power than a normal 110V line can supply. A full machine most likely would have drawn as much as a fully pimped out modern rack... with about 6 orders of magnitude more of everything in it.
>25 servers that will be decommissioned in three years at >``end of life''.
As opposed to paying the same rate for a long depricated machine...
>This is progress.
Well yes. but nobody will stop you if you want buy that piece of shit and put it in your room if you like it better than modern computers...
And what has this to do with web apps? And why the fuck is this crap modded to +5 (informative of all things?)
Hint: My browser is about as much a desktop application as it gets (hint: that textbox isnt some fancy ajax wordprocessor). And yes, just to annoy you, i didnt even write this in the browser, but in notepad.
Because no information is better than missinformation. If you whore your own site out (something nobody else knows or can correct), the wiki-principle doesnt work anymore (it requires a multitude of people cooperating).
Same could apply for proofs: They are have the potential to be a huge source of missinformation and error. Its something that more than most other things can _only_ be done by experts, and the only alternative to "correct" is "horribly wrong". If the base isnt there to guarantee each proof is correct, they shouldnt be included but referenced elsewhere.
Are you seriously that blind when looking back? XP was NOTHING like 2000 in its requirements. And i wouldnt descripe it as "working" with 128Mbyte.
But even if it were, the interesting thing is that for those 1Gbyte you say Vista needs you only pay 1/4th of what you had to pay for those 256Mbyte for XP back when it was released.
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I guess there will _never_ be a time when only usb3 devices will be around.
Why would one want to put the electronics neccessary to interface at gbit speeds into a mouse, or a keyboard?
That might have been true 5 years ago, but nothing ever followed up.
No "serious inroads" ever manifested.
In fact, FW IS on the decline.
The ratio of Laptops and Camcorders being fitted out with them has been dropping for at least two years now.
They days when you could expect one are more or less over even with video.
Thats the same reason why 24bit audio cards for playback (and even for recording if you dont plan any excessive post-processing) is overkill.
All those SACD players cannot beat the roles of physics, which mean that everything after bit 19 or so is just thermal noice. No matter how expensive the audiophile voodoo happens to be.
If you can afford a plane ticket crossing borders, you can afford a laptop.
Great way of making yourself look like a retard with that last sentence.
US also shot down an iran passanger airplane with >200 people on board way back during the gulf-war...
I have also hear radio broadcasts were people were swearing that they saw a propeller plane hit the WTC.
Theres nothing less reliable than an eyewitness in a shocking situation.
You are a fucking idiot.
Energy=Money.
Running Seti on my computer 25/7 would cost about 200Eur a year.
Donating that to a good cause would be a 100 times better use of the resource.
The Betas were before that time.
I am sorry, but what do you want to show us with that shots? How good or how bad the game looks?
The first one has a butt-ugly creature in front of Gray Plastic Tunnels (tM). The second one had the worlds edgeiest curve and gray in gray.
Looks like quake 1 in high-res...
Which will be a) 3 months after Duke Nukem 4ever,
or alternatively accompanied by the HUGE disappointment about another overhyped game failing.
Just really look at the meat thats been shown about spore, and ignore the talk (which is all bullshit): A series of nearly unreleated minigames, where your great design of the species doesnt play any kind of role besides being cosmetic.
"Compression" can also mean dynamic compression (i.e. Exactly what you explained).
As i have no interest in reading another audiophile oppinion piece, i dont know what the article means in that case.
They are correct to wonder.
In fact, you should LOVE MP3 if you like the random crappy distortions LPs have.
Just take a look at what frequency domain corrections used to correct the horrible bias of LPs.
Vs them, MP3 is HiFi^2.
Maybe you should stup sniffing shit, because reading even half your post did only archive two things:
a) a slight headache
b) the feeling that there is somebody out there who's totally fucked up (and not me)
What ever eyes they have, they still wont violate physics.
Diffraction limit==One pixel earth.
I see your humor, but...
A single pixel can provide a hell of a lot of information: Do spectroscopy, and you can get the typical absorption lines (O2 for example should be easy to detect, and be a sure way for _anybody_ who detects it to tell something is odd about that planet).
Track the intensity over time, and you can get the rotation period.
You know that a "molecular bonded shell" IS nanotech, right?
You underestimate the size of galaxies... They have VAST amounts of of nothing in them.
Somebody actually calculated to expected value of collisions between stars in the andromeda event: Its only a single digit number...
(excuse me if your reference to supernovas in meant to descripe the increase in star formation due to the external influence)
One problem with that:
The speed of the stars will me _much_ less than c.
That means to get into "empty space", it should have at least a couple billion years of time to coast.
Stars heavy enough to go supernova dont live that long. They can be happy to get a few 100 millions of ago before they detonate.
What a cruel kind of humor for them to hound their employees at christmas with the testimony of their constant failure...
25 servers that will have to be taken offline for patches,
hardware upgrades, error analysis, disk failures, subnet
changes...
>25 servers that will require a dozen admin staff and ongoing
>per-instance support contracts with hardware and software
>vendors.
This is called "no single point of failure". 25 servers with one down= 24 still working...
>25 servers pulling a magnitude more power, requiring heavy-
>duty cooling and a bank of UPS.
Are you retarted? Sorry, excuse this rhetoric question..
The disc unit alone pulls more power than a normal 110V line can supply. A full machine most likely would have drawn as much as a fully pimped out modern rack... with about 6 orders of magnitude more of everything in it.
>25 servers that will be decommissioned in three years at
>``end of life''.
As opposed to paying the same rate for a long depricated machine...
>This is progress.
Well yes. but nobody will stop you if you want buy that piece of shit and put it in your room if you like it better than modern computers...
So you are willing to give up all benefits of OSes (interfaces, ect)?
Who the fuck is going to write those "tightly couples OS" for all applications?
What you descripe seems like an awefully horrible step back to the days of dos (and let me tell you, it wasnt pretty at all)
And what has this to do with web apps?
And why the fuck is this crap modded to +5 (informative of all things?)
Hint: My browser is about as much a desktop application as it gets (hint: that textbox isnt some fancy ajax wordprocessor). And yes, just to annoy you, i didnt even write this in the browser, but in notepad.
Because no information is better than missinformation.
If you whore your own site out (something nobody else knows or can correct), the wiki-principle doesnt work anymore (it requires a multitude of people cooperating).
Same could apply for proofs: They are have the potential to be a huge source of missinformation and error. Its something that more than most other things can _only_ be done by experts, and the only alternative to "correct" is "horribly wrong".
If the base isnt there to guarantee each proof is correct, they shouldnt be included but referenced elsewhere.
Are you seriously that blind when looking back?
XP was NOTHING like 2000 in its requirements. And i wouldnt descripe it as "working" with 128Mbyte.
But even if it were, the interesting thing is that for those 1Gbyte you say Vista needs you only pay 1/4th of what you had to pay for those 256Mbyte for XP back when it was released.
Yeah, because its thats such a great idea.
"Hey, a guy is stealing my IP! I will show him by abandoing it to crackpot central!"