It was the Republicans (Reagan actually) who stopped the Synthetic Liquid Fuels program in the 1980s in the first place. One of the biggest mistakes in history IMO.
Having better electric engines could also help. I remember the US Navy at one point considered using superconducting electromagnets to power their electric engines, because it allows a large reduction in the amount of power required to move a ship across a certain distance.
IMO Caprica sucked. I tried watching it a couple of times for a bit each time. But the plot is sedated. It feels like a slow motion angsty teen series with virtual reality sprinkled on top.
The Go programming language. I guess this is one reason why Google is bothering with developing these kinds of programming languages. Then there is the other tidbit. Guido van Rossum (creator of Python) works at Google.
If Google was smart they would convince IBM to grant a royalty free license to their handset patents for all Android implementations. I would bet that IBM Simon did all of the things Microsoft is claiming they have patents for before Microsoft even filed.
The process separation has the advantage that you get a more stable browser. The disadvantage is that the browser will consume more memory because of unnecessary duplication of data.
The biggest improvement was putting the plugins in their own process. Those were the things that crashed Mozilla the most.
They will only succeed to the degree they succeeded with the original Macintosh. Eventually someone makes a more open platform and all the developers flock over to it. Apple cannot replace the 3rd party developers. They do not have enough manpower to do it.
The US cellphone network sucks in case you did not notice. One reason is that they have historically preferred longer range over high peak bandwidth. The less communication towers you have the cheaper your network is. They also have rather weak coverage. There is no government mandate for carriers to provide decent coverage. They usually are the first to hop on a new standard, which may get quickly obsoleted, become a niche which only exists in the US (Hello CDMA!). But hey, they have "4G".
There is a lot more to Fermi than that. It has 64-bit memory addressing, hardware debugging support, L2 cache which can be used as for shared communications between processing threads, ECC support. None of this is particularly important for games rendering, but it is important for other workloads.
If you are interested in using CUDA for high performance computing, or are a GPU software developer, the GTX 460 is worth it. The AMD development tools suck donkey balls compared to those of NVIDIA. But if you only want the card for gaming or video the GTX 460 isn't worth it.
They do move slowly. But there is ongoing activity. One example is that the Chinese copied the Russian Su-33 carrier based fighter. They call it the J-15. Why would they want a carrier based jet fighter if they weren't planning on building a carrier?
They just finished building large shipbuilding dockyards which are big enough to build a carrier. They have bought carrier designs from several nations. If the Chinese follow their usual mainline development policy, they will first proceed to build a couple of prototype vessels cobbled together from foreign parts, or buy some more foreign ships, then work towards building a first prototype made using indigenous technology. After they get the prototypes to the desired specs, they will start mass producing them.
The Chinese are not planning to build a blue water navy for fighting the US. Their current goal is merely to dominate the South China Sea and to secure the sea lanes which bring oil to the mainland.
No. What will happen is that the Chinese will start divesting their dollar assets by buying either commodities or property. Remember the Japanese buying spree during the 1980s?
I wouldn't rate China's current military power as highly as you do. Their military forces are in a transitional period. Their armor is obsolete, as is their sensor technology, command and control. At the same time they still have a couple of intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. I give thanks to that. If that wasn't the case we would probably be experiencing a regional or world war there right now.
I remember seeing screenshots in magazines at the day. Tomb Raider, Quake, Ultim@ate Race and Mechwarrior 2 were the usual examples. The PowerVR graphics looked better. I think it was due to the way textures were sampled, or filtered.
I am guessing this is one example of minimalism. There is no reason to disable MJPEG support unless you want to reduce software maintenance costs. MJPEG is one of the few formats which does not have any software patents.
Every time I hear an Apple user say his programs stopped working because of an OS upgrade I shudder. I knew a MacOS X software packager once. He had to recompile and redistribute the binaries every time a new OS X version came out.
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It was the Republicans (Reagan actually) who stopped the Synthetic Liquid Fuels program in the 1980s in the first place. One of the biggest mistakes in history IMO.
Having better electric engines could also help. I remember the US Navy at one point considered using superconducting electromagnets to power their electric engines, because it allows a large reduction in the amount of power required to move a ship across a certain distance.
You probably think all geeks enjoy fixing someone else's machine for free.
Because there is well done sci-fi drama, and pubescent teen series style drama.
IMO Caprica sucked. I tried watching it a couple of times for a bit each time. But the plot is sedated. It feels like a slow motion angsty teen series with virtual reality sprinkled on top.
Java was GPLed by Sun. All that Google needs to do to stop infringing is to migrate to something based on OpenJDK.
The Go programming language. I guess this is one reason why Google is bothering with developing these kinds of programming languages. Then there is the other tidbit. Guido van Rossum (creator of Python) works at Google.
Remember the Network Computer and its friendly rival the NetPC?
If Google was smart they would convince IBM to grant a royalty free license to their handset patents for all Android implementations. I would bet that IBM Simon did all of the things Microsoft is claiming they have patents for before Microsoft even filed.
In the EU they charge VAT according to the rate of the country where the destiny of the goods is.
The biggest improvement was putting the plugins in their own process. Those were the things that crashed Mozilla the most.
Sweden also has low population density and they have good coverage.
They will only succeed to the degree they succeeded with the original Macintosh. Eventually someone makes a more open platform and all the developers flock over to it. Apple cannot replace the 3rd party developers. They do not have enough manpower to do it.
People can just run Ubuntu in a VM and do Java development in Linux. Eventually they may switch to Linux altogether.
The US cellphone network sucks in case you did not notice. One reason is that they have historically preferred longer range over high peak bandwidth. The less communication towers you have the cheaper your network is. They also have rather weak coverage. There is no government mandate for carriers to provide decent coverage. They usually are the first to hop on a new standard, which may get quickly obsoleted, become a niche which only exists in the US (Hello CDMA!). But hey, they have "4G".
There is a lot more to Fermi than that. It has 64-bit memory addressing, hardware debugging support, L2 cache which can be used as for shared communications between processing threads, ECC support. None of this is particularly important for games rendering, but it is important for other workloads.
If you are interested in using CUDA for high performance computing, or are a GPU software developer, the GTX 460 is worth it. The AMD development tools suck donkey balls compared to those of NVIDIA. But if you only want the card for gaming or video the GTX 460 isn't worth it.
They do move slowly. But there is ongoing activity. One example is that the Chinese copied the Russian Su-33 carrier based fighter. They call it the J-15. Why would they want a carrier based jet fighter if they weren't planning on building a carrier?
They just finished building large shipbuilding dockyards which are big enough to build a carrier. They have bought carrier designs from several nations. If the Chinese follow their usual mainline development policy, they will first proceed to build a couple of prototype vessels cobbled together from foreign parts, or buy some more foreign ships, then work towards building a first prototype made using indigenous technology. After they get the prototypes to the desired specs, they will start mass producing them.
The Chinese are not planning to build a blue water navy for fighting the US. Their current goal is merely to dominate the South China Sea and to secure the sea lanes which bring oil to the mainland.
No. What will happen is that the Chinese will start divesting their dollar assets by buying either commodities or property. Remember the Japanese buying spree during the 1980s?
I wouldn't rate China's current military power as highly as you do. Their military forces are in a transitional period. Their armor is obsolete, as is their sensor technology, command and control. At the same time they still have a couple of intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. I give thanks to that. If that wasn't the case we would probably be experiencing a regional or world war there right now.
I remember seeing screenshots in magazines at the day. Tomb Raider, Quake, Ultim@ate Race and Mechwarrior 2 were the usual examples. The PowerVR graphics looked better. I think it was due to the way textures were sampled, or filtered.
Agreed. Jobs may be a lot of things but he is not that stupid.
I am guessing this is one example of minimalism. There is no reason to disable MJPEG support unless you want to reduce software maintenance costs. MJPEG is one of the few formats which does not have any software patents.
Every time I hear an Apple user say his programs stopped working because of an OS upgrade I shudder. I knew a MacOS X software packager once. He had to recompile and redistribute the binaries every time a new OS X version came out.
He says in the same interview that Jobs developed NeXTSTEP. Well he didn't. Just like Bill Gates did not develop MS-DOS or Windows.
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