I think I saw this in a (fictional) book once... A high-profile mobster has been nabbed and he's about to be marched out of the police station and mobbed by reporters. So he gets a sharpie and writes "FUCK YOU" on his forehead, just before going in front of all the live TV cameras.
People in the Mac mini's target market would not even understand what you just said, much less want to attempt it. 512MB is enough to run all of the applications Apple provides with the Mac, and that's all a lot of people are going to use. 256MB, however, is not.
Not entirely correct. Halo was planned to be a cross-platform title from the start, but the PC version was the first one developed because at the time PCs had better 3D hardware than Macs (this was back when the Voodoo 2 and Rage 128 roamed the earth). It was only ported to the Mac right before Macworld.
My computer can produce graphics identical to those in Final Fantasy in real time. Look, it's doing it right now! Please ignore the faint hum coming from the DVD drive, it's just a quirk of my system...
The concept of "recovering from a pipeline overflow when an interrupt came" makes no sense. First of all, I don't know what you mean by "pipeline overflow". If an instruction cannot be scheduled during a particular cycle, it causes a bubble and gets scheduled in a future cycle. None of that operation occurs outside the processor, the only thing the executing program "notices" is reduced throughput. Interrupts are hardly ever thrown from "inside" any processor except for nonrecoverable error conditions like illegal instructions or divide by zero.
Modern general-purpose CPUs are stupendously complex objects that are very difficult to sort into categories that were defined in the 1970s. That doesn't mean the categories don't apply, just that it's not as simple as "It doesn't have memory operands beyond load and store, so it's RISC!" or "It has a vector processing unit, so it's CISC!"
I hope you supported whatever entity was suing JibJab Media over their adaptation of This Land is Your Land (before the court found for JibJab, at least).
Bullshit. If I stole your computer and smashed it with a hammer, its value would become zero and according to this argument I would not be depriving you of anything (and thus not guilty of any crime).
IANAL, but that makes no sense at all. The real value in your situation is probably something like the value of the closest equivalent legal item (a movie ticket, a purchased copy of the game, etc).
The ITMS's traffic is still dwarfed by that of illegal networks. The ITMS's draw is that a) it's more convenient and better organized and b) it's "official" and you're properly compensating the appropriate people (downhillbattle notwithstanding).
The ITMS is also evidence that people who really object to unobtrusive, lenient DRM are a very small minority. The market rejects strong-arm tactics, but as a whole it's willing to compromise. Remember that slashbot rhetoric is not universal truth, and that insistence on unconditional victory in the DRM wars is only going to result in eventual loss by attrition.
Living things were not originally designed to die. Organisms that reproduce by mitosis do not die of "natural causes". The concept of old age and programmed cell death only appeared with the invention of sexual reproduction that created offspring without affecting either parent.
The other music stores are going to die off because they don't have anything to fall back on. Apple can keep the ITMS going indefinitely while it's in the red, because that loss is more than cancelled out by profits from the iPod itself (let alone income from the computer division, which still dwarfs iPod revenues despite the huge disparity in units sold).
Arguably, nobody has been able to beat Apple for a long time in any categories other than clock speed and price. And in the music player market, the former doesn't matter and Apple's pricing isn't too far out of line with everyone else's.
It's possible to predict the solar system very far into the future with very high accuracy, since it's an almost perfect Newtonian system- it's in a vacuum, so there's no friction, and the masses and volumes involved are very large, so there are no tiny, chaotic behaviors to worry about. About the only thing that could make for a large inaccuracy in the prediction is a massive body NASA hasn't detected yet, but AFAIK the last time that happened was the discovery of Pluto in 1930. NASA knows exactly what this impact will do to the comet's path.
That's because the Mac Mini is not a consumer product. It's also not a pro product. It's a completely new "first Mac" category, meant for people who want to experiment with a Mac regardless of previous experience.
Isn't the MPEG-2 algorithm public? And isn't the Altivec API public? And isn't the "secret" hardware MPEG decoding API just a hook into a chunk of Altivec code that does MPEG-2 decompression? So why hasn't someone with some expertise and spare time solved this problem already?
The article specifically mentions that there is no feeling in the hand, so I was correct that nerve reconnection is not yet within our capabilities (at least, as of 1999).
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I think I saw this in a (fictional) book once... A high-profile mobster has been nabbed and he's about to be marched out of the police station and mobbed by reporters. So he gets a sharpie and writes "FUCK YOU" on his forehead, just before going in front of all the live TV cameras.
People in the Mac mini's target market would not even understand what you just said, much less want to attempt it. 512MB is enough to run all of the applications Apple provides with the Mac, and that's all a lot of people are going to use. 256MB, however, is not.
Not entirely correct. Halo was planned to be a cross-platform title from the start, but the PC version was the first one developed because at the time PCs had better 3D hardware than Macs (this was back when the Voodoo 2 and Rage 128 roamed the earth). It was only ported to the Mac right before Macworld.
My computer can produce graphics identical to those in Final Fantasy in real time. Look, it's doing it right now! Please ignore the faint hum coming from the DVD drive, it's just a quirk of my system...
Apple has been doing this for months.
The concept of "recovering from a pipeline overflow when an interrupt came" makes no sense. First of all, I don't know what you mean by "pipeline overflow". If an instruction cannot be scheduled during a particular cycle, it causes a bubble and gets scheduled in a future cycle. None of that operation occurs outside the processor, the only thing the executing program "notices" is reduced throughput. Interrupts are hardly ever thrown from "inside" any processor except for nonrecoverable error conditions like illegal instructions or divide by zero.
Modern general-purpose CPUs are stupendously complex objects that are very difficult to sort into categories that were defined in the 1970s. That doesn't mean the categories don't apply, just that it's not as simple as "It doesn't have memory operands beyond load and store, so it's RISC!" or "It has a vector processing unit, so it's CISC!"
Burnout 3 while driving.
I hope you supported whatever entity was suing JibJab Media over their adaptation of This Land is Your Land (before the court found for JibJab, at least).
Bullshit. If I stole your computer and smashed it with a hammer, its value would become zero and according to this argument I would not be depriving you of anything (and thus not guilty of any crime).
IANAL, but that makes no sense at all. The real value in your situation is probably something like the value of the closest equivalent legal item (a movie ticket, a purchased copy of the game, etc).
The ITMS's traffic is still dwarfed by that of illegal networks. The ITMS's draw is that a) it's more convenient and better organized and b) it's "official" and you're properly compensating the appropriate people (downhillbattle notwithstanding).
The ITMS is also evidence that people who really object to unobtrusive, lenient DRM are a very small minority. The market rejects strong-arm tactics, but as a whole it's willing to compromise. Remember that slashbot rhetoric is not universal truth, and that insistence on unconditional victory in the DRM wars is only going to result in eventual loss by attrition.
Living things were not originally designed to die. Organisms that reproduce by mitosis do not die of "natural causes". The concept of old age and programmed cell death only appeared with the invention of sexual reproduction that created offspring without affecting either parent.
Just try to stay alive long enough for robot bodies to be invented.
That just sounds like people who hit Page Up way too much.
The other music stores are going to die off because they don't have anything to fall back on. Apple can keep the ITMS going indefinitely while it's in the red, because that loss is more than cancelled out by profits from the iPod itself (let alone income from the computer division, which still dwarfs iPod revenues despite the huge disparity in units sold).
Not to mention that carrying a pool's worth of water on board would eat into the passenger, cargo, and fuel capacity.
Arguably, nobody has been able to beat Apple for a long time in any categories other than clock speed and price. And in the music player market, the former doesn't matter and Apple's pricing isn't too far out of line with everyone else's.
It's possible to predict the solar system very far into the future with very high accuracy, since it's an almost perfect Newtonian system- it's in a vacuum, so there's no friction, and the masses and volumes involved are very large, so there are no tiny, chaotic behaviors to worry about. About the only thing that could make for a large inaccuracy in the prediction is a massive body NASA hasn't detected yet, but AFAIK the last time that happened was the discovery of Pluto in 1930. NASA knows exactly what this impact will do to the comet's path.
Not (just) crap like this. The US is orders of magnitude larger and less dense than South Korea.
This argument comes up every time someone mentions broadband in any context at all. Look up some previous stories.
Pathways, Marathon 2, and Marathon Infinity.
That's because the Mac Mini is not a consumer product. It's also not a pro product. It's a completely new "first Mac" category, meant for people who want to experiment with a Mac regardless of previous experience.
Isn't the MPEG-2 algorithm public? And isn't the Altivec API public? And isn't the "secret" hardware MPEG decoding API just a hook into a chunk of Altivec code that does MPEG-2 decompression? So why hasn't someone with some expertise and spare time solved this problem already?
New consumer product from Apple: iSan! Bundled with matching white plastic iServe RAIDs, and check out our multicolored fiber channel hubs!
The article specifically mentions that there is no feeling in the hand, so I was correct that nerve reconnection is not yet within our capabilities (at least, as of 1999).
Slow down- Limb transplants are barely even experimental. I don't think we knew enough about the nervous system to do it yet.
Metroid Prime's controls use only a single analog stick. It can be done if you break some assumptions about FPSes.