I, for one, don't mind - and indeed look forward to - upgrading my components every couple of years at 1k+ a pop. It's like people with DSLRs vs people with point-and-shoots. If the latter works fine for you, great - however for others, it's just not good enough.
Hmm. Maybe I don't fully understand this system but from what I gather, it still seems pretty convoluted to me; even if it implemented that spot number thing.
I'm from Singapore. Here, every vehicle has an electronic device with a stored value card in it. On the way in, a wireless scanner logs you in, and on the way out the same system clocks you out, calculates the total time you spent in the lot (minus 5 minutes goodwill to allow you to find a spot) and deducts the appropriate amount from the card.
Both the entrance and exit are gated and the gates won't open if 1) all the lots are full or 2) you don't have enough value in your card to pay. Top up stations exist within walking distance so you never end up being unable to leave.
Imagine a company sold 4 copies of some software last year, with 3 copies for desktops and 1 copy for netbooks.
This year, they managed 1 desktop copy and 2 netbook copies. Overall sales are down 25%, but netbook penetration is up 100%.
I think this kinda answers the question.
Right?
Or did I miss something?
Dammit. Need coffee.
Brane daid.
If my code's still running in 2100, our society has got way bigger problems than me not figuring leap years correctly.
You don't need your code to still be running in 2100 to reference dates in 2100.
Simulation software, for one, might easily need those dates for predictions.
I better sell my Nikon D300. They'll be able to trace it back to me. Or one of the other gazillion people who also bought one. Hmm... on second thought...
you're missing the point.
there usually are other factors in play in any investigation. having only the camera make to go by is useless, but not so if you've managed to narrow - through other criteria - your suspect list down to 10.
brand me a n00b but what exactly does it mean (physically) when a harddisk starts clicking? i've had laptop disks click away at alarming volume and speed.
"..while more cool fluid rushes in to take its place. Probably look cool, too."
yeah... with your cpu fizzing away in a vat looking like some indigestion tablet in a glass of water. switching the damn thing on and off would be a bitch.
"..in order to dissipate fewer than 10 watts the internal resistance would have to be less than 0.000028 ohms.
At 0.000028 ohms, and a made-up terminal voltage of 7 volts, you could draw 250000 amps out of such a battery when shorted. Jesus Christ. But those numbers came out of my ass. We need real values..."
0.000028 ohms of sounds really fantastic. you'd be lucky to get.0028 ohms. ah well, guess if all else fails we could use them as tea warmers, you know, check them in a cuppa, let them short themselves out and bring your tea to a boil.
Well, yes, I guess you will die blissfully if you happen to be very near impact. Otherwise you can look forward to drowning in a tsunami, starving in the coming 5-year winter or just die at the looting of the local convenience store once the news breaks (duh, saltwater rain, 4 weeks of darkness, complete failure of all infrastructure, etc.).
well, not all is lost. ARPANET, which later became the Internet was built to withstand anything short of armageddon remember?
Saltwater rain? Pah. At least I'll still have my Slashdot. And Fark.
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I, for one, don't mind - and indeed look forward to - upgrading my components every couple of years at 1k+ a pop. It's like people with DSLRs vs people with point-and-shoots. If the latter works fine for you, great - however for others, it's just not good enough.
Hmm. Maybe I don't fully understand this system but from what I gather, it still seems pretty convoluted to me; even if it implemented that spot number thing.
I'm from Singapore. Here, every vehicle has an electronic device with a stored value card in it. On the way in, a wireless scanner logs you in, and on the way out the same system clocks you out, calculates the total time you spent in the lot (minus 5 minutes goodwill to allow you to find a spot) and deducts the appropriate amount from the card.
Both the entrance and exit are gated and the gates won't open if 1) all the lots are full or 2) you don't have enough value in your card to pay. Top up stations exist within walking distance so you never end up being unable to leave.
Imagine a company sold 4 copies of some software last year, with 3 copies for desktops and 1 copy for netbooks. This year, they managed 1 desktop copy and 2 netbook copies. Overall sales are down 25%, but netbook penetration is up 100%. I think this kinda answers the question. Right? Or did I miss something? Dammit. Need coffee. Brane daid.
If my code's still running in 2100, our society has got way bigger problems than me not figuring leap years correctly.
You don't need your code to still be running in 2100 to reference dates in 2100. Simulation software, for one, might easily need those dates for predictions.
I better sell my Nikon D300. They'll be able to trace it back to me. Or one of the other gazillion people who also bought one. Hmm... on second thought...
you're missing the point. there usually are other factors in play in any investigation. having only the camera make to go by is useless, but not so if you've managed to narrow - through other criteria - your suspect list down to 10.
Have you checked Technorati's top search tags lately? That's what can happen when kids get to play with the coolest new things... =)
Seriously though, exposing your kids to technology's one thing, teaching them intelligent use is another.
One day we will all log on to GoogleNet and do what we're told.
credits to whoever made it. NSFW.
"Among the 50 illegal games, 26 are pirated game software including..."
Wha...?
There is! Not free though...
http://www.clickgamer.com/moreinfo.htm?pid=109
Gawd-daymn. They must play a lot of CS over in the Middle East...
I use e, you insensitive clod!
And I, for one, kept wondering why, why why why, that marines in the year 2195 didn't have night vision goggles.
NIGHT VISION, man, NIGHT VISION!! it's the 22nd century for chrissakes. heck, even DOOM had light amplification goggles.
brand me a n00b but what exactly does it mean (physically) when a harddisk starts clicking? i've had laptop disks click away at alarming volume and speed.
/starting to feel paranoid now...
to the Great Firewall of China.
muaha. that was my first ever greenlighted fark submission. /me bows deeply.
Phew. For a while i thought you said "better WMD and US support."
/dyslexic
yeah... with your cpu fizzing away in a vat looking like some indigestion tablet in a glass of water. switching the damn thing on and off would be a bitch.
snorkels, anyone?
At 0.000028 ohms, and a made-up terminal voltage of 7 volts, you could draw 250000 amps out of such a battery when shorted. Jesus Christ. But those numbers came out of my ass. We need real values..."
0.000028 ohms of sounds really fantastic. you'd be lucky to get .0028 ohms. ah well, guess if all else fails we could use them as tea warmers, you know, check them in a cuppa, let them short themselves out and bring your tea to a boil.
hey, they're organic right?
Pushing a 7.6 --> 16MHz is over 100% more than the original! I have yet to see most people get anywhere near that on normal processors.
If I'm not mistaken, the MC68k is rated for CLK speeds up to 16MHz. the 7.6MHz chip wasn't "overclocked", in the strictest sense...
rather, a 16MHz chip was underclocked.
Well, yes, I guess you will die blissfully if you happen to be very near impact. Otherwise you can look forward to drowning in a tsunami, starving in the coming 5-year winter or just die at the looting of the local convenience store once the news breaks (duh, saltwater rain, 4 weeks of darkness, complete failure of all infrastructure, etc.). well, not all is lost. ARPANET, which later became the Internet was built to withstand anything short of armageddon remember? Saltwater rain? Pah. At least I'll still have my Slashdot. And Fark.
won't you need someone to write the stuff to be paraphrased in the first place?? explain to me how that replaces reporters with small shell scripts.
Poser is a big no no in the 3D biz.
DIY rigging is the way to go.
poser's only good for, shall i say, recreational rendering?