In UK universities in 2003, there were around 35,000 applications made to study Sports Science BSc.
Yes, but those 35,000 applicants all aspire to being self-employed personal trainers earning 40 pounds/hour. Compare that to the career opportunities for science graduates and can you blame them?
Well now you can stop wondering. If you aren't up for the full read (it is 302 pages),
Although the PDF is only around 1.42 Mbytes. How much space would the same document take up as a powerpoint presentation?
Could someone (maybe a senator?) explain to me: if the entire purpose of patents is to promote innovation and provide an incentive to innovate then WTF does any new innovation require the inventor to spend 3 years to check that it doesnt infringe 10,000 patents?
Usually, the existance of a patent will leads to other companies finding alternative ways of solving a problem, which if not more efficient, are more general purpose and flexible enough to be applied to other markets.
Look how patents helped to preserve the market for mechanical calculating devices.
It's a great pity that the pneumatic tube mail delivery system didn't take off. It would have been really cool to be able to click on a web page, and have the item delivered straight to your desk or house.
Given that PCI Express is coming along, is this not just a ploy to encourage users into buying old stock? NVidia seem to be clearing out their old stock
That reminds me of the story (urban legend?) about how the police used to visit schools and do talks about the dangers of drugs, and how the sniffer dogs would be used to find illegal substances. In such visits, the officer would take a sample substance, hide in the room, and then get his/her partner to bring in the dog who would then explore the room, looking for the item. Except on one occasion, the dog went straight for the headteachers/principals handbag, sat down and just stared at the bag as it was trained to do. The explanation was given that she had confiscated it from some kids hanging outside the school.
It's known to happen in Snakes too. The general theory is that if a female is approaching the end of her reproductive stage, and she can't find a mate, it's more beneficial to the species for her to clone her own offspring, than to not have any offspring at all.
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The issue here is whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless search and seizure of garbage left for collection outside the curtilage of a home. We conclude, in accordance with the vast majority of lower courts that have addressed the issue, that it does not.
Doesn't trash that is left outside become the property of the council or the collecting agency? I remember a big fuss being made about unscrupulous paper recyclers who were driving around the streets in the early morning and picking up bundles of newspapers that were meant to be recycled by the city.
VRML is an open ASCII format, but from a game programming perspective, it wasn't as compact as a binary format, and didn't support application specific data formats (BSP trees, Octrees, Quadtrees). It didn't really keep up to date with the changes in OpenGL and DirectX (multi-texturing, bump-mapping, vertex-programs, fragment-programs, cube-maps, particle systems).
Which city is your company located? what skills are you looking for? what career paths are available? and how much are you offering? How much does it cost to buy/rent a flat/house in a safe residential area? And what is the maximum age limit you are considering for a software engineer?
I would consider 30K to be excellent for the North of England, but awful for Edinburgh, London, the Home Counties and the South coast.
Darth Vader makes his costume out of pajamas in order to win an amateur wrestling contest to win money to buy a car to impress a girl.
So there you go. Black pajamas with a motorcycle helmet.
If he were large for his age, he could have gone as a mutant ninja sumo wrestler.
If I understand correctly, the Solaris operating system allows the owner to select the number of CPU's they wish to license (it's cheaper for Sun to build a fully configured system, and then license the number of CPU's used, rather than to send a technician in and change the hardware). Presumably this licensing scheme would be extended to control the number of cores active?
Gripe 1: A packet gets sent EVERY TIME THE CURSOR BLINKS!
Could it be possible to specify the cursor blink rate in X-windows?
Gripe 2: Why does the ENTIRE app need to redraw itself (using huge amounts of network bandwidth) every time I obscure it with a window or hop to another virtual desktop???
Could X-windows support display lists like OpenGL?
From Imagica's web site, the digital scanner has a frame resolution of 4096*3112 and 14-bits channel RGB.
Then a single frame requires:
4096x3112x3(channels)x(2 bytes per channel)
= 76480512 bytes (76 Megabytes/frame).
Presumably there are some run-length encoding formats to reduce this.
Assuming 24 frames/second for a 90 minute movie, you need to store/process:
24x60x90 = 129600 frames.
From the article, the company are automatically cleaning up each frame of the movie (getting rid off scratches, dust and spots) using in-house software they have developed.
The scanner has an input rate of four seconds, so a 90 minute movie is going to take 6 days to scan in. Since cleaning up a single frame is going to take several minutes at least, having 600 computers means you can have match the speed of the scanner.
So by the time the scanner has reached the last frame of the movie, processing of all previous frames has been completed.
Given that DVD's perform lossy compression, to fit an entire movie into one disc, is there going to be much noticable difference between using the original final cut and a 3rd/4th generation copy?
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In UK universities in 2003, there were around 35,000 applications made to study Sports Science BSc.
Yes, but those 35,000 applicants all aspire to being self-employed personal trainers earning 40 pounds/hour. Compare that to the career opportunities for science graduates and can you blame them?
That must have happened to Jaws.
Well now you can stop wondering. If you aren't up for the full read (it is 302 pages), Although the PDF is only around 1.42 Mbytes. How much space would the same document take up as a powerpoint presentation?
Could someone (maybe a senator?) explain to me: if the entire purpose of patents is to promote innovation and provide an incentive to innovate then WTF does any new innovation require the inventor to spend 3 years to check that it doesnt infringe 10,000 patents?
Usually, the existance of a patent will leads to other companies finding alternative ways of solving a problem, which if not more efficient, are more general purpose and flexible enough to be applied to other markets.
Look how patents helped to preserve the market for mechanical calculating devices.
It's a great pity that the pneumatic tube mail delivery system didn't take off. It would have been really cool to be able to click on a web page, and have the item delivered straight to your desk or house.
Given that PCI Express is coming along, is this not just a ploy to encourage users into buying old stock? NVidia seem to be clearing out their old stock
That reminds me of the story (urban legend?) about how the police used to visit schools and do talks about the dangers of drugs, and how the sniffer dogs would be used to find illegal substances. In such visits, the officer would take a sample substance, hide in the room, and then get his/her partner to bring in the dog who would then explore the room, looking for the item. Except on one occasion, the dog went straight for the headteachers/principals handbag, sat down and just stared at the bag as it was trained to do.
The explanation was given that she had confiscated it from some kids hanging outside the school.
It's known to happen in Snakes too. The general theory is that if a female is approaching the end of her reproductive stage, and she can't find a mate, it's more beneficial to the species for her to clone her own offspring, than to not have any offspring at all.
Criminals have also been identified from their Ear Prints and from Lip Prints.
Simple: fold the futon up when you want to use it as a couch and then fold it back down when you want to use it as a bed.
But at night you can't tell what state the futon is in, without at first knowing where it is.
This is known in Quantum Mechanics as Schrodinger's Crib experiment.
The issue here is whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless search and seizure of garbage left for collection outside the curtilage of a home. We conclude, in accordance with the vast majority of lower courts that have addressed the issue, that it does not.
Doesn't trash that is left outside become the property of the council or the collecting agency? I remember a big fuss being made about unscrupulous paper recyclers who were driving around the streets in the early morning and picking up bundles of newspapers that were meant to be recycled by the city.
VRML is an open ASCII format, but from a game programming perspective, it wasn't as compact as a binary format, and didn't support application specific data formats (BSP trees, Octrees, Quadtrees). It didn't really keep up to date with the changes in OpenGL and DirectX (multi-texturing, bump-mapping, vertex-programs, fragment-programs, cube-maps, particle systems).
I'd prefer the magic wand and extra life.
Which city is your company located? what skills are you looking for? what career paths are available? and how much are you offering? How much does it cost to buy/rent a flat/house in a safe residential area? And what is the maximum age limit you are considering for a software engineer?
I would consider 30K to be excellent for the North of England, but awful for Edinburgh, London, the Home Counties and the South coast.
The video's from PBS's Nova - The Elegant Universe - Newton's Embarassing Secret explains this.
Whoever said a lead balloon would never float?
Darth Vader makes his costume out of pajamas in order to win an amateur wrestling contest to win money to buy a car to impress a girl. So there you go. Black pajamas with a motorcycle helmet.
If he were large for his age, he could have gone as a mutant ninja sumo wrestler.
I can make a $1000 dollars a month flipping burgers plus free meals while I'm on shift if that's what your satisfied with.
I hope you get enough exercise to burn off all those calories, otherwise you won't need to worry about saving up for a pension.
If I understand correctly, the Solaris operating system allows the owner to select the number of CPU's they wish to license (it's cheaper for Sun to build a fully configured system, and then license the number of CPU's used, rather than to send a technician in and change the hardware). Presumably this licensing scheme would be extended to control the number of cores active?
From Quake III: Are those moves yours, or are they implants?
In other words:
Gripe 1: A packet gets sent EVERY TIME THE CURSOR BLINKS!
Could it be possible to specify the cursor blink rate in X-windows?
Gripe 2: Why does the ENTIRE app need to redraw itself (using huge amounts of network bandwidth) every time I obscure it with a window or hop to another virtual desktop???
Could X-windows support display lists like OpenGL?
The cracks and the spikes in a song can give it a certain charm.
You can always put them back, if you really want to.
From Imagica's web site, the digital scanner has a frame resolution of 4096*3112 and 14-bits channel RGB.
Then a single frame requires:
4096x3112x3(channels)x(2 bytes per channel)
= 76480512 bytes (76 Megabytes/frame).
Presumably there are some run-length encoding formats to reduce this.
Assuming 24 frames/second for a 90 minute movie, you need to store/process:
24x60x90 = 129600 frames.
From the article, the company are automatically cleaning up each frame of the movie (getting rid off scratches, dust and spots) using in-house software they have developed.
The scanner has an input rate of four seconds, so a 90 minute movie is going to take 6 days to scan in. Since cleaning up a single frame is going to take several minutes at least, having 600 computers means you can have match the speed of the scanner. So by the time the scanner has reached the last frame of the movie, processing of all previous frames has been completed.
Given that DVD's perform lossy compression, to fit an entire movie into one disc, is there going to be much noticable difference between using the original final cut and a 3rd/4th generation copy?
3. Look on ex-boss's face when you walk past the office Monday morning in full costume and yell "GREETINGS, PROGRAM!"..... priceless.