a) The torrent sites are easy to search, have good files and few fakes. b) The tit-for-tat algorithm does a pretty good job of ensuring people upload stuff to you. Every other P2P software I used before bittorrent was slow and unreliable.
That's not really e-paper. It works in a completely different way to e-ink and is more akin to LCD (which technically doesn't need a backlight either).
The contrast isn't nearly as good as e-ink. Doesn't look like the one in the article has very good contrast either.
I've only used lecroy waverunners, but I really like them. The touch-screen interface works really well, they can do pretty much anything, the sampling rate is crazy (5 GHz I think), and although it feels really weird and wrong, the fact that they run on windows is actually very useful - you can do matlab post-processing on-line etc.
That's a terrible idea. How are you going to search for the error code/message if it just says "$APPNAME has crashed due to a bug."?
It should at least have a details button, not some line that you have to change in a config file.
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Erm... All universities (well all the good ones) have business incubators for spin-offs with the aim of commercialising research. How is Stanford different (other than being very successful)?
Wow, I just started reading that but it is pretty clear that whoever wrote it doesn't know C++ very well. Just reading the const correctness bit (randomly chosen) and he makes false statements like:
"If the vector itself is declared const (as in const std::vector<T*>), then you can't modify the vector, but you can modify the objects."
"[IPv6 addresses do] not fit into any native data type (and won't until we move to 128 bit architectures - which does not seem to be very soon)"
Wow are you serious? Never heard of structs? And we all know NAT is a very annoying 'solution'. I think the real problem with IPv6 is that is isn't sufficiently backwards compatible with IPv4 (hence all that 6-over-4 and 4-over-6 nonsense.
Yeah except this article is talking about java *games*.
The market for java games at the moment is basically zero. This is due to a few things I think:
1) The mobile java platform is really really shit. You can't seek in files, apps are limited to 1MB if you want it to work on mid-range phones, it's very slow due to the JVM, etc.
2) No-one wants to pay for shitty little games that are just repackaged versions of mastermind/breakout/same game/etc.
3) It's really quite hard to press most mobile phone keys, so only puzzle and board games really work. This is probably the main reason.
In fact I recently downloaded a torrent of about 100 java games (they mostly seem to be made by 'gameloft'), and there are only about 5 that are worth-while.
Actually one milliard in French is one milliard in English (not American) and one billian is 10^12. Of course no one uses that anymore, all British people use American naming (million = 10^9, trillion = 10^12) and milliard was never really in common usage as far as I know (it's still an English word though).
Be Broadband (now owned by O2) £14/mo, unlimited, 8 Mb/s £18/mo, unlimited, 24 Mb/s (this is what I have, it also has a 3 month contract and static ip which is useful)
For all the above you need to pay £11/mo line rental to BT. There are others such as Virgin, and talktalk where you don't.
I agree. Is fun (or happiness, via fun) not the point of life? Even for the religions --- who would want to go to heaven if it wasn't fun there?
If anyone can think of a better ultimate goal that doesn't just come down to 'making me happy' (or perhaps 'making other people happy') then I'd love to hear it.
MSDOS is even faster!
Seriously you can't just say "Vista is slower so it must be worse". There are other factors to consider - functionality, aesthetics, hardware support, security, and so on.
Each segment of the cable's angular momentum would be conserved. As it falls to the Earth its radius of rotation reduces so it must speed up, thus falling in the direction of rotation of the Earth (Eastward). Remember, for 90% of the cable's length there is no drag, and gravity isn't constant over the length of a space elevator (it is for a pin).
But they don't need to make it impossible to find the key - just sufficiently hard that the cat and mouse game is too much effort for the pirates.
The same could be said of stealing satellite TV, but they eventually managed to make the cards sophisticated enough that reverse engineering them wasn't worth the effort.
This is wrong. There is only one oyster card but it may or may not be registered (i.e. tied to your name/address). Unfortunately you have to register it to use discounts (young person's railcard, student discount etc.) They almost certainly record the credit cards that are used to top it up if you don't use cash.
Sorry I've got to call bullshit on this one. The truth is it is far too much work to write and maintain a linux driver. Unless you've got huge resources (e.g. nVidia), the only option is to get it into the official kernel tree, which involves making your driver open source which very few companies are willing to do.
Just look at the drivers for UniChrome graphics cards. The installation process requires you to recompile both X and the kernel. I'm sorry but I bet if decent tools were provided for writing linux drivers, and there was some sane way to distribute binary drivers (there really isn't a way at the moment) then I bet more companies would make them.
I know you all want open source drivers, but you can't say to companies "Your only option is to release open source drivers" and then wonder why they don't release decent drivers - closed or open source.
I don't think so. I've watch a video on the iPhone and computer side-by-side and the iPhone one is noticeably better. Way more than just aliasing could account for.
Also the iPhone YouTube is native and almost certainly uses MPEG4. Stands to reason that it is different (flash uses VP6).
Bullshit. There were few problems because most programs store and manipulate dates as seconds since 1/1/1970, *not* as day-month-year triplets. That runs out in 2038.
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It's the fact that
a) The torrent sites are easy to search, have good files and few fakes.
b) The tit-for-tat algorithm does a pretty good job of ensuring people upload stuff to you. Every other P2P software I used before bittorrent was slow and unreliable.
That's not really e-paper. It works in a completely different way to e-ink and is more akin to LCD (which technically doesn't need a backlight either).
The contrast isn't nearly as good as e-ink. Doesn't look like the one in the article has very good contrast either.
I've only used lecroy waverunners, but I really like them. The touch-screen interface works really well, they can do pretty much anything, the sampling rate is crazy (5 GHz I think), and although it feels really weird and wrong, the fact that they run on windows is actually very useful - you can do matlab post-processing on-line etc.
> 550 ft/lbs is one helluva lot of torque.
No it isn't. 550 ft-lbs might be! Nm is a much more sensible unit though.
That's a terrible idea. How are you going to search for the error code/message if it just says "$APPNAME has crashed due to a bug."?
It should at least have a details button, not some line that you have to change in a config file.
Erm... All universities (well all the good ones) have business incubators for spin-offs with the aim of commercialising research. How is Stanford different (other than being very successful)?
I seriously doubt that no-one had thought of that before 1992.
Wow, I just started reading that but it is pretty clear that whoever wrote it doesn't know C++ very well. Just reading the const correctness bit (randomly chosen) and he makes false statements like:
// OK // compile error.
"If the vector itself is declared const (as in const std::vector<T*>), then you can't modify the vector, but you can modify the objects."
#include <vector>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
class Object
{
public:
void setData(string d) { data = d; }
string getData() const { return data; }
private:
string data;
};
void test(const vector<Object>& v)
{
v.at(0).getData();
v.at(0).setData("test");
}
int main()
{
vector<Object> v(1);
test(v);
return 0;
}
In other words, ignore his nonsense.
"[IPv6 addresses do] not fit into any native data type (and won't until we move to 128 bit architectures - which does not seem to be very soon)"
Wow are you serious? Never heard of structs? And we all know NAT is a very annoying 'solution'. I think the real problem with IPv6 is that is isn't sufficiently backwards compatible with IPv4 (hence all that 6-over-4 and 4-over-6 nonsense.
That and it isn't really needed yet.
Yeah except this article is talking about java *games*.
The market for java games at the moment is basically zero. This is due to a few things I think:
1) The mobile java platform is really really shit. You can't seek in files, apps are limited to 1MB if you want it to work on mid-range phones, it's very slow due to the JVM, etc.
2) No-one wants to pay for shitty little games that are just repackaged versions of mastermind/breakout/same game/etc.
3) It's really quite hard to press most mobile phone keys, so only puzzle and board games really work. This is probably the main reason.
In fact I recently downloaded a torrent of about 100 java games (they mostly seem to be made by 'gameloft'), and there are only about 5 that are worth-while.
Actually one milliard in French is one milliard in English (not American) and one billian is 10^12. Of course no one uses that anymore, all British people use American naming (million = 10^9, trillion = 10^12) and milliard was never really in common usage as far as I know (it's still an English word though).
Here's some example prices/conditions in the UK:
Bt Broadband (aol-like rip-off):
£16/mo, 5GB/mo, 8 Mb/s
£21/mo, 8GB/mo, 8 Mb/s
O2 Broadband
£7.50/mo, unlimited, 8 Mb/s
Be Broadband (now owned by O2)
£14/mo, unlimited, 8 Mb/s
£18/mo, unlimited, 24 Mb/s (this is what I have, it also has a 3 month contract and static ip which is useful)
For all the above you need to pay £11/mo line rental to BT. There are others such as Virgin, and talktalk where you don't.
How do these prices compare to Americas? (£1~$2)
Burn a CD in 7 seconds? How fast would that have to be spinning?
> they use 500Mbps a month Megabits per second per month? Right...
I agree. Is fun (or happiness, via fun) not the point of life? Even for the religions --- who would want to go to heaven if it wasn't fun there? If anyone can think of a better ultimate goal that doesn't just come down to 'making me happy' (or perhaps 'making other people happy') then I'd love to hear it.
Yes but who really expected the software to *expire*? It's not like it couldn't have just kept going if Apple weren't such control freaks.
MSDOS is even faster! Seriously you can't just say "Vista is slower so it must be worse". There are other factors to consider - functionality, aesthetics, hardware support, security, and so on.
Each segment of the cable's angular momentum would be conserved. As it falls to the Earth its radius of rotation reduces so it must speed up, thus falling in the direction of rotation of the Earth (Eastward). Remember, for 90% of the cable's length there is no drag, and gravity isn't constant over the length of a space elevator (it is for a pin).
A ton is neither a unit of weight nor pressure.
But they don't need to make it impossible to find the key - just sufficiently hard that the cat and mouse game is too much effort for the pirates.
The same could be said of stealing satellite TV, but they eventually managed to make the cards sophisticated enough that reverse engineering them wasn't worth the effort.
> There are two versions of the Oyster Card.
This is wrong. There is only one oyster card but it may or may not be registered (i.e. tied to your name/address). Unfortunately you have to register it to use discounts (young person's railcard, student discount etc.) They almost certainly record the credit cards that are used to top it up if you don't use cash.
Sorry I've got to call bullshit on this one. The truth is it is far too much work to write and maintain a linux driver. Unless you've got huge resources (e.g. nVidia), the only option is to get it into the official kernel tree, which involves making your driver open source which very few companies are willing to do.
Just look at the drivers for UniChrome graphics cards. The installation process requires you to recompile both X and the kernel. I'm sorry but I bet if decent tools were provided for writing linux drivers, and there was some sane way to distribute binary drivers (there really isn't a way at the moment) then I bet more companies would make them.
I know you all want open source drivers, but you can't say to companies "Your only option is to release open source drivers" and then wonder why they don't release decent drivers - closed or open source.
> degree celsius, degree fahrenheit and many others would probably have something to say about it.
:-)
I shall call my first born 'Degree'.
I don't think so. I've watch a video on the iPhone and computer side-by-side and the iPhone one is noticeably better. Way more than just aliasing could account for.
Also the iPhone YouTube is native and almost certainly uses MPEG4. Stands to reason that it is different (flash uses VP6).
Bullshit. There were few problems because most programs store and manipulate dates as seconds since 1/1/1970, *not* as day-month-year triplets. That runs out in 2038.