Seriously. When new to linux, and browsing through the huge garbage pile that is the "available list" of the package manager, finding something with the destinctinve "K" is really helpful, because they usually work and at least partly follow the same usability conventions.
Case in point: i couldnt even EXIT that damn vi before reading 5 minutes into the damn man file without kill-9ing the PID, but luckily a "Kedit" in the corresponding cathegory was available, completely usable
17000$ bandwith bill... Hm. Thats about 10Tbyte transfered data with my server provider.
Equals easily 100 million page impressions (considering 100k for a not bloated webdesign). I guess google adwords would boost the site into the + with that amount. Sorry,./ isnt that big if every user that ever has looked on the mainpage here came of it, and if you really NEED to put videos/big messy flash with background music/huge pics rescaled via html instead of precreated thumpnail/ect online its your own fault.
The _usage_ of the "MIPS" here might be mostly marketing bullshit (as it doesnt make the sound "better"), its not compareable to PMPO or co.
Its just a bit decieving, because getting mips in audio chips is _REALLY_ easy. You are mostly dealing with 16 or 24bit integer values, in neat streams. You can build a whole function unit for a few 1000 transistors...
So just give the thing 50 adders, 50 mul-units, runn it at 100 Mhz and you get 10 billion possible instruction per second (which might be burned quite quickly if you want to do bigger effects on xx streams, but thats another matter).
The violence in GTA has the clear consequence of providing cash and new cars to joyride...
I get what are you trying to point out, but it doesnt work like that... little tommy wont find turles big turtles to jump on in the streets, but he could very well find a target suitable to check out if headshots really blow away the head completele just like the latest 3d shooters shows it, or if it only make a hole in the face...
You got it. Now we should stop arresting burglers and muggers, because that would only teach them to never attempt crime without being backed by the mob, right?
It isnt the radiation, its the anisotrophy of it. In laymans terms: The CMB isnt exactly the same strenght everywhere. But if it is a snapshot of the time the universe became cold enough to be transparent, then it SHOULD be isotrophic, simply because any density fluctuation BEFORE would have resulted in a increase in absorbtion, heating, expanding... thus loss off that density surplus.
But nonbaryonic particles would have had time since the big bang to slowly bunch together and form gravity wells (or more like a gravity bumpmap) that allowed the density of baryonic matter to be higher at some places, while causing it to be lower at others. Also, one can see that _without_ those anisotrophy, galaxy formation as we observe it wouldnt have been possible at the known timescales (the freefall time of those early clouds would have been WAY to long)
Well, why should the Wimps not interacting with light be such a strange and complicated thing? It just doesnt. Nobody whines about why neutrinos dont do strong force either, so i personally never had a problem with the proposal of particles that are "immune" to other forces, too...
Rip off or not, most inks DO fade under UV exposure, and UV is in every daylight. HanG a print on a bright wall, and after a year in all but the best inks the yellows and reds will be significantly faded, giving the thing a shitty look. (low quality inks fade completely. One pic (din a4) hanging for 3 years is now only half the contrast it used to have. Even the blacks are only dark gray now)
I also once "heard" two f4 phantom going supersonic. I couldnt see them, because they were 9km higher and 25km lateral distance... it still make the windows shake and caused the local police being swamped by people reporting bomb detonations or other stuff they thought the report belonged to.
Stuff like this (or years ago for LHC) is most likely following approach:
They astimated an amount of information that is "all information", like 480 000 Exabyte or so. Then they look at their current capactity (storage and database cpupower) and just interpolate moore's law into the future and look when the demand will be met.
Of course, for stuff like the LHC that only interpolates 10-20 years into the future such a thing is possible, but 300 years? He should read up about the singularity...
I guess the pressure for such a thing is MUCH bigger in non-region 1 areas. My dvd player had a manual section that contained a 3 digid code to be entered via the remote while in the setup-menue, which unlocks the region code. No need to even look in the web to do it....
Er.... Lord of the rings was more or less the ONLY fantasy blockbuster the last decade or two. And all recent star trek movies more or less flopped (and star wars is a money machine by itself) (compare that to the relativly big success of the alien movies, event horizon, pitch black, ect (the non-non-horror SF stories ))
I would neither set flash gordon not any of the start wars films very high on the "originality" or "story" scale, so i dont think that example is _that_ convincing.
If there were "a few per year" from our galaxy, live would have never evolved on earth... (just think about it: a few per year over the the time earth exists is about 10 billion GRBs....
I dont know if we _EVER_ have observed a GRB in our galaxy, the detected ones are very isotropically distributed over the sky and in the _deep_ background. Most have a z>0.1 and are FAR away.
And the killing ratio for a GRB would be more like 100-250 ly. 10 ly away even a normal supernova would be an extinction event.
Just use some fermi logic: If a GRB is the result of the collision of 2 neutron start, than they are at least twice as rare as supernovas (somewhere those NS have to come from, plus many supernovas dont leave a neutron star). and after that, there has to be a situation when 2 are able to merge (which 99.9% only happens in close binary start, as 2 neutron start hitting each other has a laughably small propability).
This alone allows to fix the rate of GRBs to at least as rare as once per millenium.
Well, most researches suggest that mars WAS quite a bit warmer and friendlier to live in the past. Which would allow for live to evolve first and than adapt to the increasingly harsher enviroment.
Thats really my point. It looks like the developers couldnt decide if they want to make a RTS with units and hero units that have powers, or an action RPG ala silent storm. I think this game could have been awsome if it were a bit deeper(real experience, for example), but allowed to issue command while in pause. It really
Well, make a control group for everty of the 12 or something different unit types? Maybe you want archers at 2 different places or something? And even if you give up any kind of tactics for unittype quickselection, the battle will just be group1->activate power->group2->acticate power... ect ect.
I rather spend my clicks per second on actually doing something. its like Warcraft3, only every unit is a mini hero. (with 2 or 3 different powers, mana that recharges, ect). There were about 15 times the first 2 missions i wished i could pause the damn thing, but then i just lost interest. It tries suggest a deepness in the gameplay (with its D&D roots) that totally gets lost in the actual battles
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Every unit has >1 special attacks that can be used, some quite often (i.e. ever 10 seconds or something), but there is no way to quickly select those specials of a group of mixed chars. So the barbarians can activat their bloodrush, or the archers summon rats/bats, or the healers cast "hold" spells, but if you have a group of all ranged characters (like archers+healers), you cannot select those powers. You got to deselect the group and select a "racially clean" group. (instead of doing the obvious and just accept the the command only for appropiate units).
That way, to get the most out of the game, it becomes a "who clicks faster" competition, and frankly, if i want to measure up in that department, i play winter games on a c64 emulator...
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surely they are NOT.
At least not in the x-server kind of thing.
Processing power is cheap, bandwith isnt.
iDont.
Seriously. When new to linux, and browsing through the huge garbage pile that is the "available list" of the package manager, finding something with the destinctinve "K" is really helpful, because they usually work and at least partly follow the same usability conventions.
Case in point: i couldnt even EXIT that damn vi before reading 5 minutes into the damn man file without kill-9ing the PID, but luckily a "Kedit" in the corresponding cathegory was available, completely usable
17000$ bandwith bill...
./ isnt that big if every user that ever has looked on the mainpage here came of it, and if you really NEED to put videos/big messy flash with background music/huge pics rescaled via html instead of precreated thumpnail/ect online its your own fault.
Hm. Thats about 10Tbyte transfered data with my server provider.
Equals easily 100 million page impressions (considering 100k for a not bloated webdesign). I guess google adwords would boost the site into the + with that amount.
Sorry,
The _usage_ of the "MIPS" here might be mostly marketing bullshit (as it doesnt make the sound "better"), its not compareable to PMPO or co.
Its just a bit decieving, because getting mips in audio chips is _REALLY_ easy. You are mostly dealing with 16 or 24bit integer values, in neat streams. You can build a whole function unit for a few 1000 transistors...
So just give the thing 50 adders, 50 mul-units, runn it at 100 Mhz and you get 10 billion possible instruction per second (which might be burned quite quickly if you want to do bigger effects on xx streams, but thats another matter).
The violence in GTA has the clear consequence of providing cash and new cars to joyride...
I get what are you trying to point out, but it doesnt work like that... little tommy wont find turles big turtles to jump on in the streets, but he could very well find a target suitable to check out if headshots really blow away the head completele just like the latest 3d shooters shows it, or if it only make a hole in the face...
Just use the same "average computer" performance values you did 10 years (or 5 years) ago.
Wow.
You got it.
Now we should stop arresting burglers and muggers, because that would only teach them to never attempt crime without being backed by the mob, right?
Well, im sure if the position of the sub isnt pinpointed before, half of the current ocean would know it after that "ping"
ah. sorry. disregard my comment.
I missread the last sentence of your post and thought you meant something different.
It isnt the radiation, its the anisotrophy of it.
In laymans terms:
The CMB isnt exactly the same strenght everywhere. But if it is a snapshot of the time the universe became cold enough to be transparent, then it SHOULD be isotrophic, simply because any density fluctuation BEFORE would have resulted in a increase in absorbtion, heating, expanding... thus loss off that density surplus.
But nonbaryonic particles would have had time since the big bang to slowly bunch together and form gravity wells (or more like a gravity bumpmap) that allowed the density of baryonic matter to be higher at some places, while causing it to be lower at others.
Also, one can see that _without_ those anisotrophy, galaxy formation as we observe it wouldnt have been possible at the known timescales (the freefall time of those early clouds would have been WAY to long)
Well, why should the Wimps not interacting with light be such a strange and complicated thing?
It just doesnt. Nobody whines about why neutrinos dont do strong force either, so i personally never had a problem with the proposal of particles that are "immune" to other forces, too...
Rip off or not, most inks DO fade under UV exposure, and UV is in every daylight.
HanG a print on a bright wall, and after a year in all but the best inks the yellows and reds will be significantly faded, giving the thing a shitty look. (low quality inks fade completely. One pic (din a4) hanging for 3 years is now only half the contrast it used to have. Even the blacks are only dark gray now)
I also once "heard" two f4 phantom going supersonic. I couldnt see them, because they were 9km higher and 25km lateral distance... it still make the windows shake and caused the local police being swamped by people reporting bomb detonations or other stuff they thought the report belonged to.
Stuff like this (or years ago for LHC) is most likely following approach:
They astimated an amount of information that is "all information", like 480 000 Exabyte or so.
Then they look at their current capactity (storage and database cpupower) and just interpolate moore's law into the future and look when the demand will be met.
Of course, for stuff like the LHC that only interpolates 10-20 years into the future such a thing is possible, but 300 years? He should read up about the singularity...
I guess the pressure for such a thing is MUCH bigger in non-region 1 areas.
My dvd player had a manual section that contained a 3 digid code to be entered via the remote while in the setup-menue, which unlocks the region code.
No need to even look in the web to do it....
And it stores the video _completely_ uncompressed. yeah to capacity and efficiency :)
Well, if they were available as pfds, they werent accessible at all for anybody besides schoolars that are intimate in his language and calligraphy.
The explaining texts and voiceovers are the real meat of this thing.
Er.... Lord of the rings was more or less the ONLY fantasy blockbuster the last decade or two.
And all recent star trek movies more or less flopped (and star wars is a money machine by itself)
(compare that to the relativly big success of the alien movies, event horizon, pitch black, ect (the non-non-horror SF stories ))
I seriously think your statement isnt true
I would neither set flash gordon not any of the start wars films very high on the "originality" or "story" scale, so i dont think that example is _that_ convincing.
Well, i dont remember any americans building or supporting our backbones over here, so go fuck yourself.
If there were "a few per year" from our galaxy, live would have never evolved on earth... (just think about it: a few per year over the the time earth exists is about 10 billion GRBs ....
I dont know if we _EVER_ have observed a GRB in our galaxy, the detected ones are very isotropically distributed over the sky and in the _deep_ background. Most have a z>0.1 and are FAR away.
And the killing ratio for a GRB would be more like 100-250 ly. 10 ly away even a normal supernova would be an extinction event.
Just use some fermi logic:
If a GRB is the result of the collision of 2 neutron start, than they are at least twice as rare as supernovas (somewhere those NS have to come from, plus many supernovas dont leave a neutron star).
and after that, there has to be a situation when 2 are able to merge (which 99.9% only happens in close binary start, as 2 neutron start hitting each other has a laughably small propability).
This alone allows to fix the rate of GRBs to at least as rare as once per millenium.
Well, most researches suggest that mars WAS quite a bit warmer and friendlier to live in the past.
Which would allow for live to evolve first and than adapt to the increasingly harsher enviroment.
Thats really my point.
It looks like the developers couldnt decide if they want to make a RTS with units and hero units that have powers, or an action RPG ala silent storm.
I think this game could have been awsome if it were a bit deeper(real experience, for example), but allowed to issue command while in pause.
It really
Well, make a control group for everty of the 12 or something different unit types?
Maybe you want archers at 2 different places or something?
And even if you give up any kind of tactics for unittype quickselection, the battle will just be group1->activate power->group2->acticate power... ect ect.
I rather spend my clicks per second on actually doing something.
its like Warcraft3, only every unit is a mini hero. (with 2 or 3 different powers, mana that recharges, ect). There were about 15 times the first 2 missions i wished i could pause the damn thing, but then i just lost interest. It tries suggest a deepness in the gameplay (with its D&D roots) that totally gets lost in the actual battles
Every unit has >1 special attacks that can be used, some quite often (i.e. ever 10 seconds or something), but there is no way to quickly select those specials of a group of mixed chars.
So the barbarians can activat their bloodrush, or the archers summon rats/bats, or the healers cast "hold" spells, but if you have a group of all ranged characters (like archers+healers), you cannot select those powers. You got to deselect the group and select a "racially clean" group. (instead of doing the obvious and just accept the the command only for appropiate units).
That way, to get the most out of the game, it becomes a "who clicks faster" competition, and frankly, if i want to measure up in that department, i play winter games on a c64 emulator...