And WHERE do you plug in the Xbox broadband adapter, eh?
Into the ethernet port on the back, perhaps?
Wrong again! Microsoft is the only one doing this!
I have yet to hear real numbers from a reliable source (and I have talked to several people inside MS) that prove or disprove this point. All the console manufacturers use the same business model.
And as far as that sales graph goes...not a single one of these systems is 128 bit
Already been pointed out many times, but an argument could be made that the (128-bit) graphics processor is now the most important part of the console (it's certainly doing far more work than the 32-bit CPU).
If the system cannot recover without human intervention (whether that intervention is by reconfiguration, rebooting, or the script kiddie clicking the "stop ddos" button).
I disagree. Yes, most people are looking for something that may be "obvious", but what if you aren't? There are some things that every website on the planet doesn't mention.
Even with Google your search results tend to get less and less relevant as you continue through the list you got back. If a search engine could somehow reverse that trend (say, a "remove pages like this one" button)...
But as long as each sale (now don't go and buy their games too,) loses money for M$, its got to be a good thing, right?
Actually, you are increasing their installed base and giving MS larger audience figures to show to developers, thereby making the console more attractive.
The Internet is always described as a distributed system with no single point of failure. Google, however, has quickly become by far the most popular method of locating information. "Surfing" has been killed with modern search technology, it's so much easier to look through Google than the Web itself. If Google was down, I'm sure the Internet would be far less useful.
Do you think Google has become an Internet point of failure? With the competition for larger and larger indexes, is the Internet becoming centralized? Do you think this is a bad thing?
...what the hell is the appeal of the Final Fantasy series?
As far as I can tell, the games consists entirely of:
Watching a very long cutscene that tells essentially the same story as last time (even though the game are described as having nothing to do with each other)
Wandering around the land until a monster attacks (randomly and unforeseeably).
Fighting the monster in a way that involves a lot of trips to the inventory screen.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Someone please tell me what I'm missing or I'll have to lump it in with all the other elements of Japanese culture whose only point of attraction seems to be how incredibly addictive they are.
(For the record, I do consider myself an otaku, it's just FF that has me confused...)
I am being completely serious. A modern computer is an asymmetric dual-processor system. GPUs are already at least as complex as CPUs, and when the shader language becomes Turing-complete (when jumps, conditionals, and some other things are added) the GPU will be a CPU and it will be pointless to ship a computer with 2 unequal general-purpose CPUs.
One of these days, nVidia will ship a GPU whose functionality is a proper superset of that of a traditional CPU and then we can ditch the CPU entirely. Just like MMX, but backwards. This is a a recognized law of engineering. At that point, Cg will have to become a "real" compiler. Let's hope nVidia is up to the task...
If I let a search run for a LONG time, I get back a trio of files, all very small and with the same name as my search term, of type mpg, url, and html. Opening them reveals HTML with a redirect to some sex site.
Hey, this is better than putting up malicious content disguised as MP3 files and hoping it gets launched by the client or user. Haven't you seen those redirects that pop up when you let a gnutella search run for a while?
You're assuming nanomachines use ejection-based engines. Perhaps it would be better to use less-efficient forms of propulsion like propellers or even legs. Also, you're neglecting the fact that (in general) the machine is makings its way through a relatively dense medium. Most of the force would be spent displacing the thousands or millions of atoms in the path it is trying to follow.
How much does a theater-quality 35mm projection rig cost, from scratch? How much did a 70mm rig cost back in the day? How much did digital surround or SDDS or THX or whatever cost?
Everything has an upgrade cycle, not just computers. Wait until new theaters are built that start out with digital projectors, or a theater is allowed to build up cash for a few years and invest in one.
...if the universe has performed 10^120 operations and it's about 20 billion years old, it's running at about 4*10^90 gigahertz. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
When the college says "Do not share code", they mean "Do not share code." It's their curriculum and their decision as to who is cheating or not. No amount of licensing or fine print on your part will get around that.
No two ways about it. If you insert a solution into your homework that did not come from your own mind, then a) you haven't learned anything b) it will just bite you in the ass later on an exam where (I assume) you are still not allowed to look at your neighbor's paper.
Demand really has surpassed capacity. Think about it, a cable modem or DSL has as much or more downstream bandwidth than a T1 costing ten times as much. They can only get away with flat-rate pricing if they can amortize it across every cable modem that shares the high-speed line they bought. MP3 programs have made bandwidth use skyrocket, to the point where too many users are downloading at the highest speed they can get 24 hours a day. The broadband companies have 3 choices here: Cap speed per user, raise the price to reduce demand, or allow the performance to decrease unreasonably when the system is over capacity. None of those options are terribly good, but option 2 is the one that will keep the company afloat.
If you want to help solve the problem yourself, stop sucking down MP3z and ISOz all the time.
Imagine what would happen if, say, instead of 1%, it was 3% using their maximum bandwidth. Now 90% of it is gone. Suppose 20% wanted to use maximum bandwidth. Now you ALL lose. If Comcast doesn't do something to cut back excess use no one will be able to use it at all.
Everyone's always complaining about the imbalance of wealth in this country and demanding that the richest 1% should stop controlling 90% of our finances, but as soon as you're in the 1% that gets 30% of the bandwidth it's you're God-given right to steal as much music as possible. Give me a break.
Would it really be so bad if manufacturing advancement in the hardware sector slowed or stopped? Companies would be forced to develop new features (like MMX or AltiVec) to differentiate their chips. Work would shift to bringing the rest of the computer up to the top speed of the processors, which it has lagged behind by orders of magnitude for years. The oft-hated hardware upgrade cycle would slow down greatly. Machines would be useful for much longer, and depreciate less. Software developers could no longer rely on increased performance, and would be forced to do real optimization.
The point of this article was, all those disasters were due to people being careless|cheap|stupid|etc and could have been easily prevented (which is not always true). Does that apply to the disaster you mention?
For that matter, do you have any more information on it? I've never heard of this one either.
The Michaelson-Morley experiment is another possibility... It proved that the speed of light is independent of the observer's velocity and frame of reference.
There are a whole class of experiments where old masters using (by modern standards) primitive equipment found results that were accurate even to modern standards and formed the basis of modern science:
Michaelson-Morley interferometer (uniformity of c)
Millikan's oil drop experiment (charge of an electron)
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If the system cannot recover without human intervention (whether that intervention is by reconfiguration, rebooting, or the script kiddie clicking the "stop ddos" button).
The GPL is not a law, it is a license between the author of some code and its user. A 3rd party is not bound by any of its limitations.
I disagree. Yes, most people are looking for something that may be "obvious", but what if you aren't? There are some things that every website on the planet doesn't mention.
Even with Google your search results tend to get less and less relevant as you continue through the list you got back. If a search engine could somehow reverse that trend (say, a "remove pages like this one" button)...
The Internet is always described as a distributed system with no single point of failure. Google, however, has quickly become by far the most popular method of locating information. "Surfing" has been killed with modern search technology, it's so much easier to look through Google than the Web itself. If Google was down, I'm sure the Internet would be far less useful.
Do you think Google has become an Internet point of failure? With the competition for larger and larger indexes, is the Internet becoming centralized? Do you think this is a bad thing?
As far as I can tell, the games consists entirely of:
- Watching a very long cutscene that tells essentially the same story as last time (even though the game are described as having nothing to do with each other)
- Wandering around the land until a monster attacks (randomly and unforeseeably).
- Fighting the monster in a way that involves a lot of trips to the inventory screen.
- Lather, rinse, repeat.
Someone please tell me what I'm missing or I'll have to lump it in with all the other elements of Japanese culture whose only point of attraction seems to be how incredibly addictive they are.(For the record, I do consider myself an otaku, it's just FF that has me confused...)
I am being completely serious. A modern computer is an asymmetric dual-processor system. GPUs are already at least as complex as CPUs, and when the shader language becomes Turing-complete (when jumps, conditionals, and some other things are added) the GPU will be a CPU and it will be pointless to ship a computer with 2 unequal general-purpose CPUs.
One of these days, nVidia will ship a GPU whose functionality is a proper superset of that of a traditional CPU and then we can ditch the CPU entirely. Just like MMX, but backwards. This is a a recognized law of engineering. At that point, Cg will have to become a "real" compiler. Let's hope nVidia is up to the task...
Limewire Java (on OS X).
If I let a search run for a LONG time, I get back a trio of files, all very small and with the same name as my search term, of type mpg, url, and html. Opening them reveals HTML with a redirect to some sex site.
Hey, this is better than putting up malicious content disguised as MP3 files and hoping it gets launched by the client or user. Haven't you seen those redirects that pop up when you let a gnutella search run for a while?
You're assuming nanomachines use ejection-based engines. Perhaps it would be better to use less-efficient forms of propulsion like propellers or even legs. Also, you're neglecting the fact that (in general) the machine is makings its way through a relatively dense medium. Most of the force would be spent displacing the thousands or millions of atoms in the path it is trying to follow.
How much does a theater-quality 35mm projection rig cost, from scratch? How much did a 70mm rig cost back in the day? How much did digital surround or SDDS or THX or whatever cost?
Everything has an upgrade cycle, not just computers. Wait until new theaters are built that start out with digital projectors, or a theater is allowed to build up cash for a few years and invest in one.
...if the universe has performed 10^120 operations and it's about 20 billion years old, it's running at about 4*10^90 gigahertz. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
When the college says "Do not share code", they mean "Do not share code." It's their curriculum and their decision as to who is cheating or not. No amount of licensing or fine print on your part will get around that.
No two ways about it. If you insert a solution into your homework that did not come from your own mind, then a) you haven't learned anything b) it will just bite you in the ass later on an exam where (I assume) you are still not allowed to look at your neighbor's paper.
Demand really has surpassed capacity. Think about it, a cable modem or DSL has as much or more downstream bandwidth than a T1 costing ten times as much. They can only get away with flat-rate pricing if they can amortize it across every cable modem that shares the high-speed line they bought. MP3 programs have made bandwidth use skyrocket, to the point where too many users are downloading at the highest speed they can get 24 hours a day. The broadband companies have 3 choices here: Cap speed per user, raise the price to reduce demand, or allow the performance to decrease unreasonably when the system is over capacity. None of those options are terribly good, but option 2 is the one that will keep the company afloat.
If you want to help solve the problem yourself, stop sucking down MP3z and ISOz all the time.
Don't worry, I'll take good care of it.
Imagine what would happen if, say, instead of 1%, it was 3% using their maximum bandwidth. Now 90% of it is gone. Suppose 20% wanted to use maximum bandwidth. Now you ALL lose. If Comcast doesn't do something to cut back excess use no one will be able to use it at all.
Everyone's always complaining about the imbalance of wealth in this country and demanding that the richest 1% should stop controlling 90% of our finances, but as soon as you're in the 1% that gets 30% of the bandwidth it's you're God-given right to steal as much music as possible. Give me a break.
Would it really be so bad if manufacturing advancement in the hardware sector slowed or stopped? Companies would be forced to develop new features (like MMX or AltiVec) to differentiate their chips. Work would shift to bringing the rest of the computer up to the top speed of the processors, which it has lagged behind by orders of magnitude for years. The oft-hated hardware upgrade cycle would slow down greatly. Machines would be useful for much longer, and depreciate less. Software developers could no longer rely on increased performance, and would be forced to do real optimization.
The point of this article was, all those disasters were due to people being careless|cheap|stupid|etc and could have been easily prevented (which is not always true). Does that apply to the disaster you mention?
For that matter, do you have any more information on it? I've never heard of this one either.
The number one fallacy of Slashdot:
Just because you and all your friends agree on something does not make it a fact!
Who's seen Soylent Green? :P
Those screenshots were taken off a Quicktime stream of last year's Macworld SF keynote. Anything would look like ass after that.
There are a whole class of experiments where old masters using (by modern standards) primitive equipment found results that were accurate even to modern standards and formed the basis of modern science: