Of _course_ you can build a computer without a HD. You can even build a computer without any kind of flash AND hd. Just put something on a floppy, and boot from it.
What uses space nowadays aint "bloatware", but the increase in media.
Yeah, back in the days you could get a few seconds of sampled sound. Later you got pictures. Later you got videos. Then 3D-Scenes.
Modern storage requirement isnt dictated by inefficient programming, but by the amount of media needed to be stored.
You disagree with yourself about 3 times during your brainless rant, most of your arguments are nil (ARM is faster EVERYWHERE, well except in those areas that really need performance. But those are not important..), and the whole wall of text a waste of time.
Get your ass away from your computer and proceed posting when you got a brain.
Think about it: The weight of the steel is an essential part of the design of a sword. The whole reason your _swing_ it instead of "just press it against somebody" is to give it impulse that will keep it going when meeting resistance.
Your plasteel swords would just bounce of any kind of armour.
Yeah, i have read what passes as a "paper" in those computer graphics journals. A whole piece of crappy circle-jerking bullshit.
For the primary ray, raycasting is good enough, and secondary rays are non-deterministic in regards of SIMD compatibility, which is a serious downside convering efficiency.
Using the same amount of computing power, rasterizing hardware will _always_ look a ton better than any kind of raytracer.
>Goodnight himself holds a doctorate in statistics from North Carolina State University, where he was a faculty member from 1972 to 1976. His passion for learning has since led him to endow several NCSU professorships and make education the focus of SAS' philanthropy. Together with his wife, Ann, he co-founded Cary Academy in 1996, an independent college preparatory day school for students in grades six through 12, with the goal of creating a model school for integrating technology into all facets of education.
Ok, so he is full of "passion of learning" and got his phd... Somehow, the summary of the "high school dropout gone CEO" seems a lot less likely now...
>Shortly before Cary Academy opened, Goodnight launched SAS inSchool®, which develops educational software that helps schools meet the challenges of the new millennium. The software contains the framework for a new generation of teaching courseware that will further extend the use of technology as a learning tool. Year after year, SAS inSchool earns awards for educational technologies and, more importantly, the support of students, teachers and parents.
Oh, and of course, a "19th century black board school" wont buy all those nice products he has to sell. No wonder he is slamming them!
They did that. Well, they reduced the detail of the dx10 to the level of dx9 (as the other way isnt possible), and that was only possible in one game (the others use different codepaths).
And see, nvidia cards are about 10-15% faster doing the same under dx10...
The thing is, even the cheap drilled wire of your phone-line is good enough to transmit multi-mhz signals for DSL over a few km.
Even for Multi-Ghz coax cable for high-frequency applications, including gold-plated SMA connectors you dont really pay more than $100/m.
thats 5(!) orders of magnitude higher frequency than those cables operate at. Just to make the picture a bit more visual for the imagination impaired: the difference between the requirements of those cables, and audio cables, is bigger than the speed difference between a turtle and the voyager probes.
Audiophiles often use science to back their claims, but the mere fact that they dont unterstand anything about what they are talking about makes it pseudoscience/voodoo.
think of small leaks.. They can be viciously hard to dedect, hat lose tons of air over a larger timeframe (and air isnt really replaceable up there).
I work with vaccum chambers, where the same problem can happen (just inverted). And even having a rather good access to all parts, it can be terrible hard to find a leak without disassembling parts of the chamber. (Thats the reason you use helium and a mass spectrometer for leaktesting. Just hose down the thing and check where helium seeps through...)
Actually, its kind of true (but with a different spin, of course).
The fact was, that the US program deemed the nuclear missile program as too sensitive and secret to let scientist mess with it, so they were forced to do a parallel development with the vanguard program (which of course lagged behind without the military budget).
The seperation was there, but the reason wasnt one of public image, but of paranoid secrecy.
Where does the berne convention say _anything_ about trackers where people can register to share whether they have a file with a cetain sha1 hash?
Please mind that if they were offering _downloads_, then there wouldnt be an argument. But they dont.
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Its the fault of the developer in any case.
They have the same consols. If the input axis were not precise enough for the purpose they want them so serve, they should have used a different control sheme.
geez, that thing really looked like a viable bomb. a block that size in c4 would certainly kill everybody in a few meter distance, and _in_ a plane it would be enough to break the hull/down the plane if the person was seated in a critical part of the plane.
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Because EVERY SINGLE FUCKING story with "TB" and "GB" causes arguments in the way of "this has to be "...bits", the number is too large for bytes" or vice versa even here. To avoid missunderstandings, 4 additionals bytes (B) dont seem that much of a price.
Who would need svg? Everything svg does for a web-ad can be done with gif, too (nobody cares about scalability). They want ads with flash because they want to make blinking, interactive (fear the mouse-over),noisy, obnoxious adds.
And seriously, 90% of all web users dont know what "flash" is.
How about using one side for a volume "slide pad" ? With the multi-touch technology, it should be no problem to tell apart the holding hand and the adjusting finger.
As the NSA reads ALL emails in the world (may be be true, but more realistic than to assume they dont), they can easily create contact networks of encrypted mail transfer. Get enough data, and they can build up a lot of circumstancial evicende. (of course this only works as long as only a very small fraction use encryption, making the mere existance of encryption a trackable property)
The blog you link (especially the authors reactions to criticism in the comments) show that he should really have been aborted when it was still possible.
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Over here, you have to log more than 20h to get your _driving license_.
For a plane, thats a joke.
Shut up with your useless drivel.
Of _course_ you can build a computer without a HD. You can even build a computer without any kind of flash AND hd. Just put something on a floppy, and boot from it.
What uses space nowadays aint "bloatware", but the increase in media.
Yeah, back in the days you could get a few seconds of sampled sound. Later you got pictures. Later you got videos. Then 3D-Scenes.
Modern storage requirement isnt dictated by inefficient programming, but by the amount of media needed to be stored.
I seriously got some headache trying to follow your spin here...
Hint: all that was last year, and the year before, and before, too.
And STILL they only had 0.3% last year.
I guess you work for them, bad for you.
You disagree with yourself about 3 times during your brainless rant, most of your arguments are nil (ARM is faster EVERYWHERE, well except in those areas that really need performance. But those are not important..), and the whole wall of text a waste of time.
Get your ass away from your computer and proceed posting when you got a brain.
Think about it: The weight of the steel is an essential part of the design of a sword. The whole reason your _swing_ it instead of "just press it against somebody" is to give it impulse that will keep it going when meeting resistance.
Your plasteel swords would just bounce of any kind of armour.
(lightsabers dont count)
Yeah, i have read what passes as a "paper" in those computer graphics journals.
A whole piece of crappy circle-jerking bullshit.
For the primary ray, raycasting is good enough, and secondary rays are non-deterministic in regards of SIMD compatibility, which is a serious downside convering efficiency.
Using the same amount of computing power, rasterizing hardware will _always_ look a ton better than any kind of raytracer.
>Goodnight himself holds a doctorate in statistics from North Carolina State University, where he was a faculty member from 1972 to 1976. His passion for learning has since led him to endow several NCSU professorships and make education the focus of SAS' philanthropy. Together with his wife, Ann, he co-founded Cary Academy in 1996, an independent college preparatory day school for students in grades six through 12, with the goal of creating a model school for integrating technology into all facets of education.
Ok, so he is full of "passion of learning" and got his phd... Somehow, the summary of the "high school dropout gone CEO" seems a lot less likely now...
>Shortly before Cary Academy opened, Goodnight launched SAS inSchool®, which develops educational software that helps schools meet the challenges of the new millennium. The software contains the framework for a new generation of teaching courseware that will further extend the use of technology as a learning tool. Year after year, SAS inSchool earns awards for educational technologies and, more importantly, the support of students, teachers and parents.
Oh, and of course, a "19th century black board school" wont buy all those nice products he has to sell. No wonder he is slamming them!
i would mod you down, as you are stupid and dont really know what you talk about.
Hint: real time raytracing will look so much more shitty than any rasterized engine of the last 5 years
They did that.
Well, they reduced the detail of the dx10 to the level of dx9 (as the other way isnt possible), and that was only possible in one game (the others use different codepaths).
And see, nvidia cards are about 10-15% faster doing the same under dx10...
The thing is, even the cheap drilled wire of your phone-line is good enough to transmit multi-mhz signals for DSL over a few km.
Even for Multi-Ghz coax cable for high-frequency applications, including gold-plated SMA connectors you dont really pay more than $100/m.
thats 5(!) orders of magnitude higher frequency than those cables operate at. Just to make the picture a bit more visual for the imagination impaired: the difference between the requirements of those cables, and audio cables, is bigger than the speed difference between a turtle and the voyager probes.
Audiophiles often use science to back their claims, but the mere fact that they dont unterstand anything about what they are talking about makes it pseudoscience/voodoo.
think of small leaks..
They can be viciously hard to dedect, hat lose tons of air over a larger timeframe (and air isnt really replaceable up there).
I work with vaccum chambers, where the same problem can happen (just inverted). And even having a rather good access to all parts, it can be terrible hard to find a leak without disassembling parts of the chamber. (Thats the reason you use helium and a mass spectrometer for leaktesting. Just hose down the thing and check where helium seeps through...)
Pretty hard, considering that those HDs are only available at 160GB (and those are apple exclusive, too)
Actually, its kind of true (but with a different spin, of course).
The fact was, that the US program deemed the nuclear missile program as too sensitive and secret to let scientist mess with it, so they were forced to do a parallel development with the vanguard program (which of course lagged behind without the military budget).
The seperation was there, but the reason wasnt one of public image, but of paranoid secrecy.
But 11" is already a HUGE step from the cell-phone display-size stuff that was available up to now.
Give me your SSN and your credit card number, NOW!
What, you wont?
Why dare you to CENCOR that information!
No, something at least slightly scientific, like origin, igor pro, mathlab, ect.
Now they wont even have to run their spiders anymore, nor use gmail to create targeted ads.
They will just snoop everybodies traffic....
Where does the berne convention say _anything_ about trackers where people can register to share whether they have a file with a cetain sha1 hash?
Please mind that if they were offering _downloads_, then there wouldnt be an argument.
But they dont.
Its the fault of the developer in any case.
They have the same consols. If the input axis were not precise enough for the purpose they want them so serve, they should have used a different control sheme.
geez, that thing really looked like a viable bomb. a block that size in c4 would certainly kill everybody in a few meter distance, and _in_ a plane it would be enough to break the hull/down the plane if the person was seated in a critical part of the plane.
Because EVERY SINGLE FUCKING story with "TB" and "GB" causes arguments in the way of "this has to be "...bits", the number is too large for bytes" or vice versa even here.
To avoid missunderstandings, 4 additionals bytes (B) dont seem that much of a price.
Who would need svg? ,noisy, obnoxious adds.
Everything svg does for a web-ad can be done with gif, too (nobody cares about scalability).
They want ads with flash because they want to make blinking, interactive (fear the mouse-over)
And seriously, 90% of all web users dont know what "flash" is.
The whole side of the ipod is still unused.
How about using one side for a volume "slide pad" ? With the multi-touch technology, it should be no problem to tell apart the holding hand and the adjusting finger.
Oh, dont be silly.
As the NSA reads ALL emails in the world (may be be true, but more realistic than to assume they dont), they can easily create contact networks of encrypted mail transfer.
Get enough data, and they can build up a lot of circumstancial evicende.
(of course this only works as long as only a very small fraction use encryption, making the mere existance of encryption a trackable property)
Well, thats it.
The blog you link (especially the authors reactions to criticism in the comments) show that he should really have been aborted when it was still possible.