You are half, maybe two-thirds correct. Decent headphones make a HUGE difference, but most of the players sound about the same. The iPod is "hip" and is one of the reasons it sells. Another is that it works so seamlessly with iTunes & iTMS. Even the most braindead people I know were able to figure out how to use an iPod. They are small, look cool, etc. All in all it simply a solid product.
If you have enough cores some tasks become much much faster. Not just splitting a process here or there either. Given enough parallization, we can achieve some theoretical bounds (the lower ones) on algorithm complexity. Given a 2D mesh system, sorting can be done in O(lg n) time instead of O(n lg n) time on a standard machine.
Similar problems would have occurred if they had taken different approaches. Clock speed was a viable option to increase CPU performance. Given how well it worked I think they made a good decision. They could have worked on multi-core chips earlier, but they have a whole different set of problems.
That, and I've never seen a "lossy" encryption method. If you are going for lossy-encryption you might as well just send random bits. Lossy-compression on the other hand can be quite useful in certain domains.
The bigger point to be made is that as scene complexity grows linearly, rendering requirements grow at O(n) for raster graphics, but only O(lg n) for ray traced graphics. So at some point it will be more efficient to use raster graphics -- even if GPU performance doubled every 6 months.
Maybe in your opinion, but in reality they cannot be compared. Pizza is better than orange juice. Asphalt is better than pool filters.
Tofu is in no way whatsoever comparable to meat. They serve very different purposes. When the vegetarian community stops trying to convince people that a tofu burger tastes just like the real thing, they will gain some respect.
Just like you eat specially grown vegetables/fruits that didn't occur in the wild and are grown by people you never met. Almost everything we eat is a modern domesticated plant or animal. I suppose there may be some people that still do the whole "go out in the woods and gather what they find," but not many.
This is far from the first time that a term has been overloaded. It happens all the time across fields, sometimes even within (I'm looking at you computer science).
Sudoku is incredibly easy to solve. In fact, the harder problem is figuring out how many unique boards, solutions, etc. there are. There was actually a good article in Scientific American a few months ago dealing with that.
AI as a field is still very hot. The difference is that the goals have changed and the field has fractured into smaller sub-fields. The goal of a truly "human intelligence" doesn't seem feasible in any near term scenario. Fields such as statistical learning theory, natural language processing, computer vision, genetic algorithms, and many more yielded very interesting results.
Which means we may see applications that use the proper user privileges at last. Gone are the days of running as an "admin" under 98. Now companies should be able to expect user level rights and write code that respects them.
Crewmen may be expensive, but how expensive? I have to imagine that fuel costs are huge to move something that big across an ocean -- and they say that the sail can cut the consumption by a third. That might easily pay for a few extra crew.
College students who change dorms/apartments every year, move home to their parents for the summer, and have a month off at Christmas. It would be much easier to carry than a desktop.
For the average consumer the amount of programming available, and the amount of content available are the same thing. Every TV show, movie, etc. could be shot in HD resolution. If they can't watch it, it does no good. Until they can walk into Best Buy and see shelves full of HD movies, there isn't a lot of content available.
This sums up my impressions as well. In the previous thread someone said that this should scare the crap out of Pixar and the like, but I still think that is wrong. They may have the tools to make a good film, but the pure level of talent and experience is lacking.
This would provide an excellent opportunity for those with talent to show it off and strive for a job in the field though. As nice as Free software/media is, you still need to pay the bills. And there is nothing stopping you from working on side projects for free.
I know at least one person who has sued the government and won; and his case was a bit more important than the.xxx domain. Dan Bernstein helped get encryption legalized and covered by the 1st amendment.
The difference is that Pixar has hordes of great artists, producers, directories, writers, etc. working for them. They have the tools and the talent. Not to mention the marketing, distribution, name recognition, etc.
Chances are if you have a collection of games for any system (PS1,PS2,N64,GC,XBox,etc.) you already own the system -- therefore you can still play them. You may have to bust out an extra $5 for a cable splitter so you can hook them up at the same time, but it isn't the end of the world.
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Go to the main menu, settings, and set the "shuffle" option to "songs".
You are half, maybe two-thirds correct. Decent headphones make a HUGE difference, but most of the players sound about the same. The iPod is "hip" and is one of the reasons it sells. Another is that it works so seamlessly with iTunes & iTMS. Even the most braindead people I know were able to figure out how to use an iPod. They are small, look cool, etc. All in all it simply a solid product.
It has more than Windows and nearly as many as X I would say. Here are some defaults: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=754 59
If you have enough cores some tasks become much much faster. Not just splitting a process here or there either. Given enough parallization, we can achieve some theoretical bounds (the lower ones) on algorithm complexity. Given a 2D mesh system, sorting can be done in O(lg n) time instead of O(n lg n) time on a standard machine.
Similar problems would have occurred if they had taken different approaches. Clock speed was a viable option to increase CPU performance. Given how well it worked I think they made a good decision. They could have worked on multi-core chips earlier, but they have a whole different set of problems.
Not in CS. I expect to have my PhD almost exactly 4 years to the month after I finished my BA.
That, and I've never seen a "lossy" encryption method. If you are going for lossy-encryption you might as well just send random bits. Lossy-compression on the other hand can be quite useful in certain domains.
On Fark they use the term "Farked" in the same way Slashdot uses "Slashdotted."
The bigger point to be made is that as scene complexity grows linearly, rendering requirements grow at O(n) for raster graphics, but only O(lg n) for ray traced graphics. So at some point it will be more efficient to use raster graphics -- even if GPU performance doubled every 6 months.
Perhaps they are just the type of person that doesn't care about Wikipedia?
Tofu is in no way whatsoever comparable to meat. They serve very different purposes. When the vegetarian community stops trying to convince people that a tofu burger tastes just like the real thing, they will gain some respect.
Just like you eat specially grown vegetables/fruits that didn't occur in the wild and are grown by people you never met. Almost everything we eat is a modern domesticated plant or animal. I suppose there may be some people that still do the whole "go out in the woods and gather what they find," but not many.
This is far from the first time that a term has been overloaded. It happens all the time across fields, sometimes even within (I'm looking at you computer science).
AI as a field is still very hot. The difference is that the goals have changed and the field has fractured into smaller sub-fields. The goal of a truly "human intelligence" doesn't seem feasible in any near term scenario. Fields such as statistical learning theory, natural language processing, computer vision, genetic algorithms, and many more yielded very interesting results.
Which means we may see applications that use the proper user privileges at last. Gone are the days of running as an "admin" under 98. Now companies should be able to expect user level rights and write code that respects them.
Crewmen may be expensive, but how expensive? I have to imagine that fuel costs are huge to move something that big across an ocean -- and they say that the sail can cut the consumption by a third. That might easily pay for a few extra crew.
To be fair, you are going to be tethered down with a TV tuner anyway.
College students who change dorms/apartments every year, move home to their parents for the summer, and have a month off at Christmas. It would be much easier to carry than a desktop.
For the average consumer the amount of programming available, and the amount of content available are the same thing. Every TV show, movie, etc. could be shot in HD resolution. If they can't watch it, it does no good. Until they can walk into Best Buy and see shelves full of HD movies, there isn't a lot of content available.
A lot of places leave Tasmania off of maps of Australia as well. So you aren't the only ones with that problem.
This sums up my impressions as well. In the previous thread someone said that this should scare the crap out of Pixar and the like, but I still think that is wrong. They may have the tools to make a good film, but the pure level of talent and experience is lacking.
This would provide an excellent opportunity for those with talent to show it off and strive for a job in the field though. As nice as Free software/media is, you still need to pay the bills. And there is nothing stopping you from working on side projects for free.
I know at least one person who has sued the government and won; and his case was a bit more important than the .xxx domain. Dan Bernstein helped get encryption legalized and covered by the 1st amendment.
The difference is that Pixar has hordes of great artists, producers, directories, writers, etc. working for them. They have the tools and the talent. Not to mention the marketing, distribution, name recognition, etc.
Chances are if you have a collection of games for any system (PS1,PS2,N64,GC,XBox,etc.) you already own the system -- therefore you can still play them. You may have to bust out an extra $5 for a cable splitter so you can hook them up at the same time, but it isn't the end of the world.
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