Of course, the article completely ignores the fact that playing first-person shooters with a console controller is a very poor relation of mouse and keyboard.
Wait a minute. Which is it that's a poor imitation of a projectile weapon, assuming that's what you mean by "shooter?"
But that's not the worst part. NASA has too many people for the flight slots, so many of the "astronauts" will never fly.
Never say never. Many of the younger astronauts from the Apollo and Manned Orbiting Labrotory programs waited 10 or 15 years to fly on the Shuttle. What will the manned spaceflight program look like in 15 years, and who will be first in line?
That's the opposite of an improvement: With the "old British" system you need to learn less words for the same number range. You just have to remember that a thousand "-ions" are one "-iard".
I prefer a system of prefixes, only. If your statement of -iard as a suffix is true, the wikipedia entry needs to be updated with trilliards, quadrilliards, quintilliards, etc.
In a purely credentials based system, I would likely not have been allowed to edit the work of a more experienced person in my own field. To allow otherwise would be to defeat the entire purpose of the credentials system, as an amateur hobbyist in any field would have to be allowed to edit the work of a seasoned professional, and that's essentially what already exists.
Yup, that's why a trust-based system is better. We-trust-you-not-to-make-shit-up-and-talk-out-of-y our-ass system.
Maybe, but a number of scientific projects have been canceled after a lot of money was invested. The superconducting super collider was canceled after it was partially built, and at least one NASA mission that was nearly ready to fly just recently got killed to cover the cost overruns in the manned space program.
Actually, both your examples support the OP's arguments:
The killing of the SSC despite the massive sunk costs has lead to absolutely zero support for new large scale physics construction in the US. It's now a huge political hurdle because everyone says, "Remember the SSC!" whenever someone proposes building a giant new circle of some sort. So don't propose a fusion reactor or a large hadron collider or a Big Dig around these parts, since everyone doubts that the government will follow through, and no one want to waste time on fighting a losing battle.
The Dawn mission to Ceres and Vesta was actually resurrected just because the mission expenditures on hardware to that point were considered as a sunk cost... despite spending more than planned, it's still great return on the good money we can throw after the bad to go through with the Dawn mission. What the OP said was that the ISS sunk cost could justify throwing a little more money at station science once the construction is done, just like Dawn.
Does it have something to do with the design being finalized, or the manufacturing facility being prepared to start making them (like a game "going gold")?
Generally it would mean that the physical design data has been released, allowing the creation of masks. (Masks being the "stencil" of each design layer used for lithography) Once the masks for the first design layers are prepared, manufacturing can begin.
Tapeout, a.k.a. RIT (Release-In-Tape) is just an old term, similiar to RTM (Release to Manufacturing), which is becoming obselete for software. It seems that semiconductor design terminology has a much longer life than the chips-- we still call design rule checking programs, "DRC decks." Why a "deck?" Remember punch cards? Speaking of cards, that's a netlist.
My favorite's "kerf," the area between chips on a wafer that is lost when they're diced. The term was borrowed from sawmills.
IBM definitely has the resources to create many of these software services themselves for alot less money. I think it's as much about buying these companies up before the competition can than getting the software.
In the last quarter's earnings conference call, an analyst specifically asked the IBM CFO what form of acquisition IBM makes. Loughridge described the great majority as "accretive" almost immediately. There is little overlap with existing offerings, so the acquisition's continued growth does not cannibalize from the growth of existing competing IBM products. In other words, they're buying more revenue, more profit and more customers, not just source code.
An alien organism has invaded the dog's body and then replicates. What's the difference (in terms of the vector) between this and a bacterial infection (also single-celled)?
The alien thing is a dog cell, not a bacterium or a virus or a protozoan or a prion or a parasite. It is an infectious disease, yes, but a different variety. If a doctor exclaims, eureka, malaria is caused by a protozoan and not bacterium, and you respond, "well, same difference," then you should stop reading general interest health science articles.
That's the thing about game "addiction"-- you CAN go cold turkey. And rather than having harmful physical side affects, it may actually improve your health.
If you watch FoxNews though, it's probably an outright lie, al franken provides details on that in "lies and the lying liars who tell them"
Whaaaat?? How can that be? Based on the cover, I though that Al Franken's book was endorsed by Fox News and Bill O'Reilly! I mean, they're on the cover-- how could they not be endorsing the book? Do you mean to say it's critical of them?
Or, if the market because large enough, producers could use it as a hedge against failure and do more innovative things, not less. Although betting on your own movie to fail when everyone else also thinks it will fail probably isn't much of a hedge.
More likely, he simply didn't understand what was written there.... Things get forgotten pretty fast if noone understands them.
The irony is that this mathematics text is interesting only as for a historical insight into the development of math. Even if this monk living in a war zone cared about geometry, did he also care about the history of geometry?
I mean, who else in their right mind is going to buy SCO stock these days, other than an insider on orders from 'higher up'?
Novell or IBM or Redhat or Oracle or Sun. Although it seems now that they have succeeded in making the company cheaper for anyone to acquire. Good job!
If you really want to debate semantics, I could point out that the AS/400 became the iSeries, which is of course now the System i, which runs on power5.
Depends on if you're talking about the chip or the package. I was talking about the chip. No Power5s are quad core chips. They're in Quad Core Modules (QCM), or for the largest servers, they're 8-core MCMs with huge caches.
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Look into the deal to use Chartered Semiconductor as a second source for AMD processors. If that works out, they don't need to build fabs to expand capacity.
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You know this switch was coming sooner or later. AMD already does a lot of their serious R&D at IBM.
Sort of. They're definitely sharing the Silicon-on-Insulator and some Strained Silicon secret sauce for a few process nodes, and even settling on some process compatibility-- Chartered Semi is now a second source for both AMD processors and the IBM-designed XBox processor. I wouldn't belittle AMD's own R&D, though. They're doing good things at Dresden.
However. Process codevelopment hardly predicts systems codevelopment-- Just ask Sony and Toshiba, who collaborate on silicon but are on opposite sides of the HDDVD vs BluRay battle.
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But is it really a retarded question?!?
Are you being ironic?
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IBM is most definitely not giving up on Power6 or Cell just because they're announcing Opteron blades. You have to remember this is IBM. They'll still sell you a System Z mainframe to run your COBOL code from 1972 on VM. Or you could run linux on it, if you'd like.
The next Power processor will be the Power6, and is supposed to come out next year. It's still be dual core, but meant to run at 4-5GHz. They also continue with PowerPC products, even without Apple.
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The killing of the SSC despite the massive sunk costs has lead to absolutely zero support for new large scale physics construction in the US. It's now a huge political hurdle because everyone says, "Remember the SSC!" whenever someone proposes building a giant new circle of some sort. So don't propose a fusion reactor or a large hadron collider or a Big Dig around these parts, since everyone doubts that the government will follow through, and no one want to waste time on fighting a losing battle.
The Dawn mission to Ceres and Vesta was actually resurrected just because the mission expenditures on hardware to that point were considered as a sunk cost... despite spending more than planned, it's still great return on the good money we can throw after the bad to go through with the Dawn mission. What the OP said was that the ISS sunk cost could justify throwing a little more money at station science once the construction is done, just like Dawn.
Tapeout, a.k.a. RIT (Release-In-Tape) is just an old term, similiar to RTM (Release to Manufacturing), which is becoming obselete for software. It seems that semiconductor design terminology has a much longer life than the chips-- we still call design rule checking programs, "DRC decks." Why a "deck?" Remember punch cards? Speaking of cards, that's a netlist.
My favorite's "kerf," the area between chips on a wafer that is lost when they're diced. The term was borrowed from sawmills.
He's saying that the latest Intel chips run micro-ops that do not have a 1-to-1 correspondence with the x86 ISA to which you refer. Git it?
That's the thing about game "addiction"-- you CAN go cold turkey. And rather than having harmful physical side affects, it may actually improve your health.
Or, if the market because large enough, producers could use it as a hedge against failure and do more innovative things, not less. Although betting on your own movie to fail when everyone else also thinks it will fail probably isn't much of a hedge.
Well, at least they've carried no "goodwill" on the balance sheet since this whole thing started...
If you really want to debate semantics, I could point out that the AS/400 became the iSeries, which is of course now the System i, which runs on power5.
Depends on if you're talking about the chip or the package. I was talking about the chip. No Power5s are quad core chips. They're in Quad Core Modules (QCM), or for the largest servers, they're 8-core MCMs with huge caches.
Look into the deal to use Chartered Semiconductor as a second source for AMD processors. If that works out, they don't need to build fabs to expand capacity.
However. Process codevelopment hardly predicts systems codevelopment-- Just ask Sony and Toshiba, who collaborate on silicon but are on opposite sides of the HDDVD vs BluRay battle.
The next Power processor will be the Power6, and is supposed to come out next year. It's still be dual core, but meant to run at 4-5GHz. They also continue with PowerPC products, even without Apple.