Our game is so awesome it kills graphics cards. Man, that's off the hook!
As proof that it works, they made slashdot with the game named in the headline.
Free software running on free maps (OSM) would be fair to call free. Then we could argue about the quality of the maps or the quality of the navigation, but I'm still waiting for this option which is likely to be the only free solution.
If you're still following. I want to hose down my garage. Fiberglass walls (or at least the bottom portion) and an epoxy covered floor with a small slope would be easy to clean. Glass cloth is available from Aircraft Spruce for $5 to $8 per square yard. And then you want to put it over a foam core - which is also an insulator. So yes it's more expensive, but like anything the price would drop if widely used. Fiberglass could last way beyond 100 years and will never decay due to moisture.
He's doing unique things that others won't even touch. It hard. I loved Black and White, but it wasn't clear to ME what was good or bad behavior in some cases. After I slapped the shit out of the creature for doing something I learned that it was actually good, but it was too late by then - he'd already learned not to do it:-( What you say is probably true though. You can't make progress without big ideas and ambitions.
Never mind Dinosaurs. In the evolutionary path, there was a first "chicken" however you want to define it. And that chicken was hatched from an egg laid by something one mutation prior to what we define as a chicken. I guess this argument is actually based on the assumption that they evolved from a prior egg-laying species, rather than chickens evolving from some magical non-egg-laying things that are also called chickens. OTOH, those would not be modern chickens. I suppose the evolution from dino which lay eggs does clarify this a bit. Egg came first - laid by a non-chicken.
Comcast just sent their Detroit area customers a digital tuner box that is now required - even if you have a digital television. They have not be offering local channels unencrypted like they are supposed to, and now you need a D/A converter box and then plug the analog outputs into the spiffy new HDTV. Fortunately I have Wide Open West where the local channels are offered in HD for free unencrypted and the rest of cable can still be tuned in without an external box.
My mom asked if there was a simpler way, and I said "switch to WOW".
If Wow pulls this crap too, I'm switching back to my attic antenna.
A better approach might not be to design things to last 500-1000 years, but design things to be easily repaired and replaced when they inevitably need to be.
I can appreciate that. I still think it may be possible to find materials for the non-weathered part of the structure that are much better than what we have now. One material in particular that comes to mind is fiberglass. Walls made from it would probably echo however. OTOH you can hose down fiberglass, and it is easily repaired, and lasts quite a long time if not weathered.
I've been thinking about housing for a while. It bothers me that most homes are temporary structures. Wood rots, drywall crumbles (and can get moldy) roofs degrade. It seems to me it might be nice to build things that are not only efficient, but designed to be permanent - i.e. 1000 years without major rework (i.e. replacement of siding, roof, or interior). In this line of thought, the notion of using recycled materials is not very relevant - no need to recycle when the structure lasts so long. Steel shipping containers will eventually rust into the ground - not to mention the shape constraints and echos.
I assume there's a reason it's not used already. Such as: It's not that hard to put the battery in correctly in the first place and maybe the connectors worn out faster / get bent more easily / touches by accident/moist/..
I can think of a couple reasons. First is that with increasing battery capability it's getting more dangerous to put both contacts that close together. Think bent or damaged contact shorting out a lithium battery in your pocket. But the biggest reason is one everyone can understand - Cost. There are 4 contacts in this design instead of 2 along with whatever is needed to bring both polarities to both ends. Think about how flashlights often use the case as a conductor just to eliminate a simple piece of wire. Add on top of the parts cost a fee to the patent holder and poof - it can't be used in small toys. Throw in the potential fire hazard for high end devices and it's just not looking that great.
Does it work? Yes (probably). Is it a practical solution to a real problem? No.
HD signals over the air are about 9GB per hour. If you strip them down to one subchannel and then transcode to something more efficient you'll be looking at 1GB per hour. But if you're lazy and go raw things fill up fast.
If browsers simply refused to operate with broken sites, the sites would have to get fixed. End of story. The warning message should indicate the site is the problem.
In general, one should try to avoid interrupts whenever possible. I thought years of VB programming and the therac 25 taught people the pitfalls of event driven software. Think about polling, fixed time steps, and state machines. Now we're talking embedded systems and video games. To be fair, interrupts are unavoidable for some things - just try to minimize that and keep the interface between IRQ and non IRQ code minimal too.
And this is why GM did hybrid SUVs first. Something that people thought was stupid. Replacing a Tahoe with a Hybrid Tahoe saves way more fuel over the life of the vehicle than replacing a 25-30mpg car with a prius - or even an imaginary car that requires no gas at all.
The supreme court just ruled today that the NFL can't license the team trademarks collectively. It seems to me this should extend to any collective pool of IP - including patents. Each patent holder should have to license their patents individually.
No, Toyota brought it to market first. The so called "power split" electric CVT was first described in a 1971 paper by some guys from TRW. It's an American invention. And yes, this guy is just doing a much more complex version of it. There is only discussion of speeds - all he's really got is a way overcomplicated differential. Once he looks at how power flows through it, he'll be very disappointed. It's a big nothing.
CO2 in the air has already started to increase the growth of plants. You have no evidence that it stays for hundreds of years. Water even if it only stays up a week will act both as a reflector of sunlight and a blanket (reflector back to the ground). Thus it will increase the stability of the temperature - see the NASA info on how the daily temperature variation increased the week after 9/11 when there were no planes flying (and hence fewer clouds). A larger variation will result in more energy radiated from the earth, as radiated energy goes up nonlinearly with temperature. This is all basic stuff, and is documented, unlike claims that CO2 stays aloft for 100 years.
He may be getting more light onto the array, but there is a huge problem with this. There is a relationship between voltage and current for cells that provides peak power (max efficiency) at a particular operating point. In other words, by changing the "load" on a cell you change its efficiency. A controller is usually used for a string of cells to keep them operating at peak efficiency. Since a string is normally connected in series, they all have to operate with the same current, and since the peak efficiency point depends on the amount of light hitting the cell you really want the whole chain to have the same amount of light hitting it - hence the entire string should be a PLANAR array. The problem with this origami stuff is that there are many many surfaces getting different amounts of light at all different angles. You'd almost need a controller per cell - not practical any time soon.
He may be gathering more sunlight, but I'd bet he can't actually design something like this that produces more real usable electric power.
It's not a trade secret when you share ratings with your clients several hours before you release information to the public. From TFA:
This time frame preserves incentives for the firms to create and disseminate research reports to their investor clients, while still recognizing the inevitable, fast-moving, and widespread informal communication of recommendation on Wall Street.
Obviously these reports will affect prices, so you tell clients, wait a bit so they can react, and then tell the public. That's market manipulation plain and simple. A more fair ruling would say they have to release the reports publicly at the same time they tell their clients. But then this is a Manhattan federal judge who knows who he works for;-)
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Our game is so awesome it kills graphics cards. Man, that's off the hook!
As proof that it works, they made slashdot with the game named in the headline.
Free software running on free maps (OSM) would be fair to call free. Then we could argue about the quality of the maps or the quality of the navigation, but I'm still waiting for this option which is likely to be the only free solution.
If you're still following. I want to hose down my garage. Fiberglass walls (or at least the bottom portion) and an epoxy covered floor with a small slope would be easy to clean. Glass cloth is available from Aircraft Spruce for $5 to $8 per square yard. And then you want to put it over a foam core - which is also an insulator. So yes it's more expensive, but like anything the price would drop if widely used. Fiberglass could last way beyond 100 years and will never decay due to moisture.
He's doing unique things that others won't even touch. It hard. I loved Black and White, but it wasn't clear to ME what was good or bad behavior in some cases. After I slapped the shit out of the creature for doing something I learned that it was actually good, but it was too late by then - he'd already learned not to do it :-( What you say is probably true though. You can't make progress without big ideas and ambitions.
Never mind Dinosaurs. In the evolutionary path, there was a first "chicken" however you want to define it. And that chicken was hatched from an egg laid by something one mutation prior to what we define as a chicken. I guess this argument is actually based on the assumption that they evolved from a prior egg-laying species, rather than chickens evolving from some magical non-egg-laying things that are also called chickens. OTOH, those would not be modern chickens. I suppose the evolution from dino which lay eggs does clarify this a bit. Egg came first - laid by a non-chicken.
Comcast just sent their Detroit area customers a digital tuner box that is now required - even if you have a digital television. They have not be offering local channels unencrypted like they are supposed to, and now you need a D/A converter box and then plug the analog outputs into the spiffy new HDTV. Fortunately I have Wide Open West where the local channels are offered in HD for free unencrypted and the rest of cable can still be tuned in without an external box.
My mom asked if there was a simpler way, and I said "switch to WOW".
If Wow pulls this crap too, I'm switching back to my attic antenna.
I can appreciate that. I still think it may be possible to find materials for the non-weathered part of the structure that are much better than what we have now. One material in particular that comes to mind is fiberglass. Walls made from it would probably echo however. OTOH you can hose down fiberglass, and it is easily repaired, and lasts quite a long time if not weathered.
I've been thinking about housing for a while. It bothers me that most homes are temporary structures. Wood rots, drywall crumbles (and can get moldy) roofs degrade. It seems to me it might be nice to build things that are not only efficient, but designed to be permanent - i.e. 1000 years without major rework (i.e. replacement of siding, roof, or interior). In this line of thought, the notion of using recycled materials is not very relevant - no need to recycle when the structure lasts so long. Steel shipping containers will eventually rust into the ground - not to mention the shape constraints and echos.
I can think of a couple reasons. First is that with increasing battery capability it's getting more dangerous to put both contacts that close together. Think bent or damaged contact shorting out a lithium battery in your pocket. But the biggest reason is one everyone can understand - Cost. There are 4 contacts in this design instead of 2 along with whatever is needed to bring both polarities to both ends. Think about how flashlights often use the case as a conductor just to eliminate a simple piece of wire. Add on top of the parts cost a fee to the patent holder and poof - it can't be used in small toys. Throw in the potential fire hazard for high end devices and it's just not looking that great. Does it work? Yes (probably). Is it a practical solution to a real problem? No.
Apparently AFV has been under paying for home videos for quite a while. Screw TV, do it yourself on YouTube.
I didn't know you could rip bluray movies !?!? Has the system been broken already?
HD signals over the air are about 9GB per hour. If you strip them down to one subchannel and then transcode to something more efficient you'll be looking at 1GB per hour. But if you're lazy and go raw things fill up fast.
If browsers simply refused to operate with broken sites, the sites would have to get fixed. End of story. The warning message should indicate the site is the problem.
Now people will be getting paid to obfuscate Python code.
In general, one should try to avoid interrupts whenever possible. I thought years of VB programming and the therac 25 taught people the pitfalls of event driven software. Think about polling, fixed time steps, and state machines. Now we're talking embedded systems and video games. To be fair, interrupts are unavoidable for some things - just try to minimize that and keep the interface between IRQ and non IRQ code minimal too.
In other news, China has been conducting further successful tests of their anti-satellite laser system....
And this is why GM did hybrid SUVs first. Something that people thought was stupid. Replacing a Tahoe with a Hybrid Tahoe saves way more fuel over the life of the vehicle than replacing a 25-30mpg car with a prius - or even an imaginary car that requires no gas at all.
That also makes it clear that the limit is zero :-)
The supreme court just ruled today that the NFL can't license the team trademarks collectively. It seems to me this should extend to any collective pool of IP - including patents. Each patent holder should have to license their patents individually.
No, Toyota brought it to market first. The so called "power split" electric CVT was first described in a 1971 paper by some guys from TRW. It's an American invention. And yes, this guy is just doing a much more complex version of it. There is only discussion of speeds - all he's really got is a way overcomplicated differential. Once he looks at how power flows through it, he'll be very disappointed. It's a big nothing.
CO2 in the air has already started to increase the growth of plants. You have no evidence that it stays for hundreds of years. Water even if it only stays up a week will act both as a reflector of sunlight and a blanket (reflector back to the ground). Thus it will increase the stability of the temperature - see the NASA info on how the daily temperature variation increased the week after 9/11 when there were no planes flying (and hence fewer clouds). A larger variation will result in more energy radiated from the earth, as radiated energy goes up nonlinearly with temperature. This is all basic stuff, and is documented, unlike claims that CO2 stays aloft for 100 years.
He may be getting more light onto the array, but there is a huge problem with this. There is a relationship between voltage and current for cells that provides peak power (max efficiency) at a particular operating point. In other words, by changing the "load" on a cell you change its efficiency. A controller is usually used for a string of cells to keep them operating at peak efficiency. Since a string is normally connected in series, they all have to operate with the same current, and since the peak efficiency point depends on the amount of light hitting the cell you really want the whole chain to have the same amount of light hitting it - hence the entire string should be a PLANAR array. The problem with this origami stuff is that there are many many surfaces getting different amounts of light at all different angles. You'd almost need a controller per cell - not practical any time soon.
He may be gathering more sunlight, but I'd bet he can't actually design something like this that produces more real usable electric power.
Great, so impose rules on foreign companies doing business here. And don't start with that "free trade" crap.
Obviously these reports will affect prices, so you tell clients, wait a bit so they can react, and then tell the public. That's market manipulation plain and simple. A more fair ruling would say they have to release the reports publicly at the same time they tell their clients. But then this is a Manhattan federal judge who knows who he works for ;-)
Wait 'til somehow one slips in with the super-sexed modification but not the sterilization.